California voters have spent the past decade voting for every stupid leftist gimmick. And no matter how often they're lied to, they seem to keep on doing it.
Take the light rail to nowhere project. You'll never guess the latest shocking development.
The price of the California bullet train project jumped sharply Friday when the state rail authority announced that the cost of connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco would be $77.3 billion and could rise as high as $98.1 billion — an uptick of at least $13 billion from estimates two years ago.
The rail authority also said the earliest trains could operate on a partial system between San Francisco and Bakersfield would be 2029 — four years later than the previous projection. The full system would not begin operating until 2033.
Try never.
When voters approved this disaster, they were told it would cost $33 billion. That's $33 billion to $77 billion. As of now. It'll hit $100 billion before long.
The rail authority has wrestled with a more than $40-billion funding gap for the full system, which would increase further under the new cost estimates.
Oh that's easy. All the illegal aliens and legalized drugs will pay for it. If legalizing pot doesn't work, just think how much revenue legalizing cocaine and heroin will bring in. With illegal aliens selling cocaine while getting universal health care over light rail, that $100 billion will pay for itself.
The new business plan is based on a wide range of uncertainties, Kelly said. Among the most challenging is the cost of about 36 miles of tunnels through mountainous Southern California, which could range anywhere from $26 billion to $45 billion, according to the report.
"These are the best estimates we have to date," Kelly said
It's only a $19 billion difference. It's only money.
A spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown, who since the 1980s has championed high-speed rail, said the disclosures do not change the strong support he expressed in his recent State of the State address, when he said: "I make no bones about it. I like trains and I like high-speed trains even better."
Maybe the remaining taxpayers of California can chip in to buy Jerry a toy train set. It'll be around $99 billion cheaper.