User profile

BRASS

With 5.5 billion of the funding coming from a government loan it is a real stretch to call this a privately funded rail line. It is guaranteed to either go broke costing the taxpayer billions or require additional billions for completion and to stay in service.

Cost overruns are almost guaranteed and estimates of revenues and costs are surely over and under estimated as is the norm with any project requiring government funding/guarantees.

If I could ride non-stop to San Diego at prices competitive with driving I would consider it, maybe even Phoenix. But as it's designed it is more inconvenient and more expensive than any other mode of travel.

This is another pipe dream by those who can't spend enough of the publics money to accomplish nothing in search of agenda nirvana.
Victorville, Palmdale? Really? Why would anyone in their right mind with a destination other than Victorville want to take a train there and then need other transportation to their final destination at a cost and time taken greater than driving, flying or taking the bus?

18,000 had a job, now none have one.

Typical union stupidity. Trucks delivering bread can't deliver non-bread products and employees stocking shelves the same. This type of tyranny killed Bethlehem Steel in Buffalo, NY and put 50,000 out of work and hundreds of thousands more around the nation. The union idiots never believe the company will go out of business and always believe there is a bottomless pit of money for them to steal, that the company is just bluffing.

It's the non-thinking us versus them, union versus management mentality. Selfish, socialist, ignorant fools, all they had to do was be reasonable, but nope, not possible, now they are all out of work, union dues to the bosses will fall and all unions are further weakened.

Led by the Pied Piper of community organizing in the White House and his version of Tammany Hall, many public sector unions are essentially doing the same thing, punishing citizens, taxpayers and themselves as a result of their selfish stupidity.

The real message here is that as an employer you have no rights under the current administration and the NLRB. The real message is that you will have a union regardless of what you want, that the union will strike and bully and coerce and intimidate and threaten and use any thug tactics they can to take what they want.

This range has nothing to do with locals and CCW holders. It is another tourist attraction designed for foreign tourists and out of staters willing to spend more than it's worth for a one time experience. When you are touting the ability to see inside, pools and chandeliers you aren't talking about avid shooters, hunters and competitive sportsman who regularly practice and refine their skills.

There is a huge market for foreign tourists who come from countries where there is no Second Amendment and firearms ownership are restricted. England is a great example as are many other European countries.

If the proceeds are disbursed, that's 6 bil down the crapper. Thanx to pie in the sky fools.