Let's see, Barack H. Obama wants to spend $13 Billion dollars to develop high speed rail service in this country, and in the middle of the worst recession/depression I've seen during my 67 years too. Mr. Obama claims this would alleviate the problem of our overcrowded highways and airports.
"Building a new system of high-speed rail in America will be faster, cheaper and easier than building more freeways or adding to an already overburdened aviation system, and everybody stands to benefit," Mr. Obama said April 15, 2009 in Washington DC.
The new Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood has already submitted a plan to Congress that he called his "Strategic Plan" that includes $8 Billion dollars of stimulus money from a grant program that law contained, along with an additional $5 Billion dollars to be allocated over the next five years. Of course House Speaker Nancy Pelosi loves the idea! Her home state of California would ger the lions share of the money to kickstart their own similiar plan. Other states and areas to benefit would be Obama's home state and home town of Chicago, Ill. And possibly the Boston and Washington DC areas since VP Biden used to be a rail commuter. What I can't see, nor understand is how this would help make the road traffic on our interstates and air space less crowded???
House Speaker Pelosi has already placed a bid on a reported $690 million dollars in stimulus money to upgrade rail service between Sacramento and San Francisco that could accomodate trains at speeds in excess of 200 mph. So much for Obama's promise of rebuilding the nations roads, bridges, and dams with the stimulus dollars and putting our unemployed back to work! So far the Obama crowd has attempted to place blame for everything they have started on the Bush Administration, and not themselves... I'm waiting to see how Obama, or one of his talking heads connect this fiasco to George Bush.
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