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Steve Hilton is right: California’s high-speed rail project belongs in a museum, not on a map — and certainly not on the state’s budget.
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project → belong → budget
The “bullet train to nowhere” was supposed to link San Francisco to Los Angeles in under three hours at a cost of $33 billion by 2020.
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train → suppose → 2020
Instead, it will only link a couple of towns in the Central Valley, at a cost of over $200 billion, by 2032 at the earliest.
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it → link → earliest
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Sign → sign → California
The Republican candidate for governor says he will end the project and “turn it into the Government Failures National Monument.”
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he → say → Monument
One can imagine something like the statue parks that sprang up in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism.
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that → imagine → communism
These were monuments to the vanity of “proletarian” leaders who claimed to rule in the name of the working classes, while enriching themselves and crushing the freedom of other human beings.
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who → claim → beings
Even Gavin Newsom understood that the high-speed rail project was a disaster — and that was eight years ago.
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that → understand → ?
When he took office, he told the state legislature that he was canceling the overall plan — because, as he said, “The project, as currently planned, would cost too much and take too long.
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project → take → much
But like every other failed project he attempted in two terms as governor, Newsom left that job unfinished.
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Newsom → fail → job
He didn’t cancel the whole high-speed rail project — just the part that connected the big cities where people actually wanted to go.
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people → cancel → cities
Today, Democrat Xavier Becerra says he wants to continue the failing high-speed rail project.
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he → say → project
When asked during a primary debate if he would keep it going, Becerra said: “The slow-speed delivery of high-speed rail, no; the high-speed delivery of high-speed rail, yes.
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Becerra → ask → rail
“What does that mean?” Hilton asked.
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Hilton → mean → What
High-speed rail is a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist: Californians can already travel easily and cheaply between San Francisco and LA.
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Californians → exist → Francisco
Past governors have touted high-speed rail as an answer to climate change.
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governors → tout → change
But the construction process alone has emitted huge amounts of carbon, and involves other environmental challenges.
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process → emit → challenges
Even private sector versions of high-speed rail, like the Brightline project between Las Vegas and Southern California, have run into trouble.
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versions → run → trouble
Turn the bullet train into the “Government Failures National Monument” — so that future generations of Californians can learn what the state cannot do with taxpayer money.
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state → turn → money
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