Train to nowhere

DesertXpress is seeking a $4.9 billion "loan" from the Obama administration to build a 150 mph train to travel between Las Vegas and Middle-of-Nowhere, California. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is pushing the charade, which would be the largest of its type, because apparently he thinks tourists in Los Angeles will travel 100 miles outside that city to board the train to Las Vegas. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says it will mean "jobs," though just over 700 jobs would be permanent. Construction costs have already reached $6.5 billion, not including interest on the loan. We find it somewhat ironic that the party of "progressive" thought and action is pushing trains as the wave of the future.

Remember when Obama said in 2009, "You can't take a trip to Las Vegas ... on the taxpayer's dime"? Unless you're taking a federally funded train.

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