Jerry wants his $98.5 billion bullet train, and the fact that an independent review committee has recommended against it as “an immense financial risk" isn't about to get in his way. He's stamping his little feet and braying like a cornered Democrat: “I believe California is a leader. It's a leader in energy. It's a leader in medical research. It's a leader in venture capital, and I'd also like to see it be the leader in high-speed rail,” Brown said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “Spain, China, Japan, France, Germany – all these countries can afford it,” he continued. “California, I believe, can.”
Jerry, here's something you don't appear to have considered:
Spain is bankrupt. Your state is bankrupt. France and Germany have severe financial issues (though Germany's in better shape than France). But perhaps the more salient issue, here, is the fact that the bullet trains that these countries have all go somewhere.
By contrast, you want to spend a trillion dollars that your state doesn't have on a bullet train to nowhere.
Try to wrap your little moonbeam head around that concept, Jerry - then try to find a way to resolve the unfunded pension crisis that's consuming your state like a flesh-eating bacterial outbreak. Get that resolved, Jerry, then come back and talk about bullet trains that actually go somewhere.
