...Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stashed a “necessary” high speed rail project in the bill. But how does this $8 billion “Sin Express” from Los Angeles to Las Vegas put someone like Greg from Milford back to work?
This is a nearly verbatim repeat of a statement made by House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, who said, “Tell me how spending $8 billion in this bill to have a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and Las Vegas is going to help the construction worker in my district.”
The problem, as Matthew Yglesias points out, is that there is no such project and there likely will not be. The $8 billion is not for a rail line between L.A. and Las Vegas, it is for the development of high-speed railroads between major cities all across the nation. The money will be targeted at areas that the Federal Railroad Administration has designated as “high-speed rail corridors.” There are ten such corridors identified that are ideal candidates for a high-speed rail system. And guess what? L.A. to Vegas is not one of them.....I think that it would be hilarious for any Republican that tells a lie to have his/her nose grow by an inch. Boehner, McCotter, Lindsey Graham, John McCain and other GOPers would not be able to fit into a car.
Most of us know that the stimulus package is not going to be the magic solution to our country's economic problems. The Bush administration had eight years of Republican members of Congress rubber stamping every piece of free give aways and de-regulation legislation that came their way. President Obama has been in office for one month, and it will take a lot of serious hard work to fix the mess Bush & the GOP left behind.
