Quote from: kramarat on July 07, 2012, 08:15:09 AM
Holy smokes!!!!

Is this total number right? $98.5 billion. Yikes!!!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/01/state-bonds.html

Nope, it's double that.

Quote from: Solar on July 07, 2012, 08:59:22 AM
Nope, it's double that.

It'll get voted down. I don't believe a judge would have the stones to reverse it.

A lot of that funding was before the Dems lost control of the House. Is it still there, or are we into wishful thinking.

Quote from: kramarat on July 07, 2012, 09:05:11 AM
It'll get voted down. I don't believe a judge would have the stones to reverse it.

Amazing isn't it? The libs want to put us deeper in debt by as much as ten fold.
Do they really think the party will go on forever, or is this a hail Mary before death?

BTW, since we are all invested in a car company, why in the hell is our government using our tax dollars to build a rival to the automobile? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Quote from: mdgiles on July 07, 2012, 09:09:27 AM
BTW, since we are all invested in a car company, why in the hell is our government using our tax dollars to build a rival to the automobile? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Not when those cars have a max range of 50 miles, just enough to get you to the train station where you plug in for 8 hours stranded, or take the train..
I guess to a lib this makes sense?

Quote from: Solar on July 07, 2012, 09:18:56 AM
Not when those cars have a max range of 50 miles, just enough to get you to the train station where you plug in for 8 hours stranded, or take the train..
I guess to a lib this makes sense?

Only if you believe that electricity is produce by the outlet on the wall. 

Quote from: mdgiles on July 07, 2012, 09:21:56 AM
Only if you believe that electricity is produce by the outlet on the wall. 

And grocery stores grow meat in the back room.

Quote from: Solar on July 07, 2012, 09:29:01 AM

And grocery stores grow meat in the back room.

YES, along with cows milk. 

Quote from: walkstall on July 07, 2012, 10:07:05 AM
YES, along with cows milk. 

First mommy and daddy harvest the money tree.



Then they go to the store, sometimes the butcher lets them pick their own meat


Some even cut out the middle man and go straight to the source, the fruit tree truck, where all fruits and vegetables are grown.

Could this be the High-Speed Railway to NOWHERE? A few years ago a road was built
somewhere in the west and as I recall it was never finished.It ended up being named
'the road to nowhere'.

Anyone remember this?

Quote from: ccd2002 on July 08, 2012, 11:09:34 AM
Could this be the High-Speed Railway to NOWHERE? A few years ago a road was built
somewhere in the west and as I recall it was never finished.It ended up being named
'the road to nowhere'.

Anyone remember this?

Are you thinking of the bridge?

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2005/10/the-bridge-to-nowhere-a-national-embarrassment

Quote from: Solar on July 07, 2012, 09:07:53 AM
Amazing isn't it? The libs want to put us deeper in debt by as much as ten fold.
Do they really think the party will go on forever, or is this a hail Mary before death?

Costly Hail Marys have been thrown by the Dems, and Conservative Republicans, alike. 

http://articles.cnn.com/2008-09-24/politics/bush.bailout_1_bailout-proposal-rescue-plan-mortgage-related-securities?_s=PM:POLITICS


Maybe it is "before death", don't know, but it has seemed a lot like rats gorging themselves right before time to jump ship.

Quote from: hfishjr81 on July 08, 2012, 04:41:40 PM


Costly Hail Marys have been thrown by the Dems, and Conservative Republicans, alike. 

http://articles.cnn.com/2008-09-24/politics/bush.bailout_1_bailout-proposal-rescue-plan-mortgage-related-securities?_s=PM:POLITICS


Maybe it is "before death", don't know, but it has seemed a lot like rats gorging themselves right before time to jump ship.

Quite honestly I'm at a complete loss to figure it out.
I've Been a Ca native since 1954, and I have never seen this state in such poor shape, then to add a rail system that 90% of the people in the state will never use, let alone see, simply boggles the mind.

Welcome to the forum, by the way.

Yep, that,  and lots of other things, from blank checks for fat cats, to bridges to nowhere, just make no sense. 

I'm from Texas, love Your state though, wish I could make the trip more often.

Thanks for the welcome, Solar.