In the interest of saving a few bucks
The California high-speed rail system may end up costing $120 billion, which prompts NRO commenter “VenturaCapitalist” to propose an alternative:
How about this: We buy TEN MILLION round trip plane tickets from San Diego to SFO and give one to everyone who wants to make the trip. At 400 bucks apiece that’s $4 Billion.
There you go. I just saved the taxpayers 116 Billion dollars.
To say nothing of what it might have done for an airline suffering the heartbreak of penury.
Jeff Brokaw »
18 January 2012 · 11:33 am
Funny and true. They could even toss him a crazy $1B bonus for coming up with the idea, and they STILL save $115B.
As always, it ain’t about helping actual people, it’s about helping politicians and their corrupt lobbyist and crony capitalist friends. The funny thing is they still think they are fooling people with this jive.