Showing posts with label theft. Show all posts
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Friday, July 17, 2009

More on light rail: here's how Seattle voters got ripped off... and how they'll do the same to us for loot rail around here.

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Does anyone doubt that if loot rail hadn't been invented, we would NOT have wasted over $100 million on bogus, pre-ordained-outcome studies with worthless, pre-ordained results?

The entire purpose for this nonsensical, massive, colossal waste of billions is to get loot rail over the new, not-needed-or-wanted worthless bridge replacement. No loot rail... no new bridge.

Unfortunately, what we have is a political leadership in the pockets of local unions and party hacks... and all concerned lack the guts to admit the obvious: the bridge replacement is a scam to get loot rail into Clark County.

Period.

Well, we have a template of how those sorts of things are done in this state... how the voters are lied to, abused and ripped off. Does anyone here remotely believe that this toilet project will turn out differently? And it's what happened in Seattle:






Light Rail not quite what voters were promised

01:26 PM PDT on Friday, July 17, 2009

By ALLEN SCHAUFFLER / KING 5 News




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Sound Transit light rail


SEATTLE - If you want a new way to get to Tukwila, or get out of Tukwila, this is your big weekend.

Believe it or not, there will be light rail trains rolling through Seattle starting Saturday. This has been a long time coming. We voted on this back in 1995 and it was defeated, then again on a slimmed down version in 1996, which passed. Now, 13 years later, we will be able to use 14 miles of track and 12 Link stations spread from downtown, through the south end, almost all the way to Sea-Tac Airport.

Pretty nice. But 13 years ago we voted on a ten-year plan that promised a lot more track and a lot more stations and a much smaller price tag. 25 miles and 26 stations for $1.8 billion. That was what voters were told they would get in terms of light rail if they passed "Sound Move," the regional transit plan which included billions more for express bus service, HOV lanes, commuter rail expansion and many more transit improvements.

Now, we'll pay another $1.9 billion to run tracks up to Capitol Hill and out to the University of Washington. And the "Sound Transit 2" measure which passed last fall will add 36 more miles of line, putting back in play many of those earlier, disappearing miles and stations. The price tag on those light rail extensions and many more transit improvements is more than $17 billion.

Enjoy the ride. Which, for the next two days at least, will be free.
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Sunday, June 14, 2009

More Administration lies: No, Mr. Biden, "everyone" did NOT "guess wrong."

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The latest from the Vice-Moron?


Biden tells "Meet the Press" that "everyone guessed wrong" on the impact of the stimulus, economy was worse off than anyone thought.

Backs away from the estimate that the funds could create or save 3.5 million jobs, instead promises 600,000 by the end of the summer.

When this Administration becomes a footnote; sooner rather than later, one would hope; historically, it won't be the "Obama Administration." Nope. Instead, it'll be the "Liars Administration."

File me under "not everyone" as I railed against this unbelievably massive waste of money from the moment of it's inception.

Here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, among other places to be precise; I went off on this massive waste of money; this corrupt and stinking, naked power play designed purely to use OUR money so Obama could pay back his political masters on the left... including the corrupt unions that screwed us by supporting his election.

While I give the Vice-Moron credit for beginning to acknowledge the lies and deceit he and the rest of the Administration have engaged in, this spin don't pass the smell-test.

From the very beginning, the Congressional Budget Office told anyone who would listen that the Porkulus was not needed and that, if implemented, would, in fact, SLOW our recovery.

So. Am I supposed to be all warm and fuzzy inside that *I* (and millions of others) know more than the Vice-Moron? Is the Vice-Moron's pronouncement supposed to be some sort of confidence builder?

So blinded by political bias that common sense has no place at the table?

Many said all along that this WILL NOT WORK. That you and the rest of the Administration WOULD NOT LISTEN does NOT mean that "everyone guessed wrong." What it means is that you lot were too damned stupid to see it in your desire to pay off your buddies.

But now, as another famous fringe-leftist once said, THOSE chickens are COMING HOME TO ROOST.




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