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But in this case, we mean the evident bilking of taxpayers.
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we → mean → taxpayers
As the California Post recently reported: Per the project’s own inspector general, high-speed rail consultants collected more than $680,000 in dubious travel reimbursements — including for first-class plane tickets, international jaunts and rides to places like gyms, tiki rooms and nightclubs.
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consultants → report → gyms
Taxpayers even covered bills for a flight via private aircraft, Uber Black luxury service, and rides from clubs at 2:30 a.m.
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Taxpayers → cover → a.m.
That’s galling — and yet another reason to bring the troubled project to a halt.
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That → ’ → halt
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California’s high-speed rail experiment, dubbed “the train to nowhere” for its uselessness, has failed.
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experiment → download → uselessness
Among the lowlights: a “shadow government” of consultants that effectively ran the troubled project and approved their own work — detailed in a blistering 2018 California State Auditor report.
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that → run → report
Now, the California High Speed Rail Authority admits, again, that it lets consultants run the asylum.
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consultants → admit → asylum
While the authority has failed to curb consultants gone wild, the project’s budget is untenable: High-speed rail is projected to run dry of cash in 2027, the audit found.
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audit → fail → 2027
Who can justify pouring more tax money into this mess?
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Who → justify → mess
At least one candidate for governor gets it: Steve Hilton, on the ballot Nov. 3, has pledged to halt taxpayer funding for the project on day one if elected.
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Hilton → get → day
State and federal taxpayers already have lavished up to $15 billion, combined, on the debacle — with no tracks, no trains and no rail travel to show for it.
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taxpayers → lavish → it
Compare that to what state voters were promised in 2008: a bullet train that would whisk riders from San Francisco to LA in two hours and 40 minutes, to be built for no more than $45 billion and completed by 2020.
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that → compare → 2020
To call that a joke is too charitable.
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call → call → that
Seven years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom all but vowed to scrap it, only to backtrack and settle for (dreams of) abbreviated rail from Merced to Bakersfield.
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Newsom → vow → Bakersfield
He went on to install cronies at the rail authority in May of this year.
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He → go → year
This is the same Newsom who in 2014 said the project fudged numbers to keep tax money rolling in: The then-lieutenant gov called ridership projections “wildly overstated” and revenue figures “manipulated.”
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figures → say → projections
Is it any wonder the project’s a laughingstock?
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project → ’ → ?
Yet despite all the failure, all the shrunken ambition and all the ridicule — Newsom & Co. won’t consign the mess to the scrap heap.
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Newsom → consign → heap
The only thing slower than the project itself might be Sacramento’s will to course-correct.
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thing → correct → project
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