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On Politics in the Golden State
July 9, 2012 | 2:44 pm
“It’s a jobs creator, and thank God we got it,” Gov. Jerry Brown said of funding for high speed rail, narrowly approved by the Legislature last week. He and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood were at the Port of Oakland on Monday to take a victory lap.
The state Senate barely passed $8 billion in state and federal spending on the bullet train and related transportation projects on Friday, sending the bill to Brown for his signature. The federal funding was contingent on the state allocating money.
Republicans have blasted high-speed rail as a waste of money. Some Democrats who have supported the concept have criticized the plan because it starts construction in the less-populated Central Valley and there are no guarantees of future federal funding.
Brown said he wasn’t worried about the rest of the money for the estimated $68 billion plan.
“When Abraham Lincoln, in the middle of the Civil War, started the intercontinental railroad, he didn’t know where the money was coming from,” Brown said.
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I would prick the Gov. with a pin if it was a guarantee he would POP!
Still Moonbeam the Idiot.
First of all Socrates, it was known as the “transcontinental railroad”, not “inter-”, which means between continents. Was it made “between” North America and some continent of which we are unaware? Second, it was funded by the selling of stock in conjunction with the previously passed Homestead Act. That’s where the money came from, not Congress simply shelling out money it didn’t have. It appears Governor Moonbeam hasn’t learned a thing since his last reign as Governor. Let’s just keep spending money we don’t have.