Harry Reid’s stimulating rail to Vegas

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Harry Reid’s stimulating rail to Vegas

By Michelle Malkin • February 12, 2009 09:36 AM

President Obama lambasted businesses that use taxpayer money to visit Las Vegas.

It’s okay, however, to use porkulus money to build pie-in-the-sky rail lines from Los Angeles to Vegas for Harry Reid’s benefit.

A Hill staffer points out this morning that Reid and Obama are pushing for an $8 billion earmark in the conference report (shhh! there are no earmarks, remember?) to “construct high-speed rail lines, quadrupling the amount in the bill that passed the Senate on Tuesday. Reid’s office issued a statement noting that a proposed Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas rail might get a big chunk of the money.”

The Hill staffer notes that Reid earmarked $45 million last year for the public magnetic levitation train project — which is in competition with a completely privately funded rail project being built along a similar route.

No wonder they won’t let us see the bill before they rush to cram it down our throats.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/02/12...rail-to-vegas/

No wonder they are currently lying about I-15 being one of the most dangerous roads in the country. Just one more hint that more "public transportation" projects are coming that costs more than it will ever benefit. Another benefit for California (they have never been able to come up with the money for their part) and the unions.

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