No "earmarks?" What about train from Disneyland to Las Vegas?

[oreo]

Since no one including President Obama has had time to read the 787 billion in the stimulus bill--it has been well noted (thanks to Senate Majority leader Reid) that there will in fact, be a train built from Las Vegas to Disneyland. I believe the cost of this is 60 billion in taxpayer dollars.

Now here's the catch:

Children really are not welcome in Las Vegas, Nevada. One has to be 21 years of age before entering a casino. Most of the hotels in Las Vegas are in the Casino buildings. In fact, Las Vegas is also known as the "Sin City" of the United States. It is strickly for adults looking to gamble & party down.

On the other hand, Disneyland is for kids. This is the place where parents take their kids to enjoy a family vacation.

So after we spend 60 billion tax payer dollars on this train from Disneyland to Las Vegas--just how many people are actually going to take it? In my opinion, this will be the "Finn's or should I say the "Reid's folly" of our taxpayer dollars.

BTW--I was just in Las Vegas. The young children I saw on the strip, I could count on one hand.

After this train is built it will be a total failure & total waste of our taxpayer dollars.

 

[oreo]

60 Billion dollars could be put toward a new electric grid in this country that would support windmill power. Right now there is only 11 billion dedicated to that--& an expert stated they would need at least 110 billion dollars to completely upgrade our electric grid.

But heck no--we get to pay for a train that will never work or be profitable anyway. Thank you President Obama--& stop with the no "earmarks" B.S. There are worthless earmarks everywhere in this so-called economic stimulus bill!

 

[DiveCon]

this thing is rife with pork
LOL

 

[Ravi]

Earmarks are things that benefit a closed community. LA and Disney are in two states.

I've taken my kids to Vegas a few times, they were never unwelcome. Maybe you only go to gamble and hire prostitutes? That wouldn't be good for kids anyway, doofweed.

btw, the kids are allowed in the hotels, just not in the casino portion. Get out of your cave once in awhile, cookie.

 

[KMAN]

Evidentally this train is more important than feeding the homeless, providing a college education to some kids who can't afford it, etc... Just think if they made Nevada and California pay for the train and they put this money towards medicare to help our parents and grand parents... Now that's a novel idea...

 

[editec]

Mag lev rail transportation would be an excellent stimulus investment.

From San Diego to Maine and from Key West to Seattle.

Include instate walking and biking paths, too to keep goofy people like me happy. They're dirt cheap since they're made of dirt.

The return on invetment in jet airlines is becoming increasingly untenable.

Jets pollute like crazy, they're damned expensive to operate, and we've invested trillions of public money for airports.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Earmarks are things that benefit a closed community. LA and Disney are in two states.

I've taken my kids to Vegas a few times, they were never unwelcome. Maybe you only go to gamble and hire prostitutes? That wouldn't be good for kids anyway, doofweed.

btw, the kids are allowed in the hotels, just not in the casino portion. Get out of your cave once in awhile, cookie.

don't most heads have 2 ears? maybe this is a pair or earrings.

 

[Ravi]

Mag lev rail transportation would be an excellent stimulus investment.

From San Diego to Maine and from Key West to Seattle.

Include instate walking and biking paths, too to keep goofy people like me happy. They're dirt cheap since they're made of dirt.

The return on invetment in jet airlines is becoming increasingly untenable.

Jets pollute like crazy, they're damned expensive to operate, and we've invested trillions of public money for airports.

I like it, too. Flying is no longer fun at all and I'd love to hop on the train to go upstate instead of driving.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Mag lev rail transportation would be an excellent stimulus investment.

From San Diego to Maine and from Key West to Seattle.

Include instate walking and biking paths, too to keep goofy people like me happy. They're dirt cheap since they're made of dirt.

The return on invetment in jet airlines is becoming increasingly untenable.

Jets pollute like crazy, they're damned expensive to operate, and we've invested trillions of public money for airports.

Nightly Business Report . Video #23 - Japan: Maglev Trains | PBS

Central Japan Railway is working with the RTRI to build a 310-mile line linking Japan's two largest cities, Tokyo and Osaka, with a one-hour run. Bullet trains now make the trip in two and a half hours. The problem is that building the electromagnetic quideway will cost $85 billion or $274 million per mile (three times higher than the bullet train tracks). The Maglev trains would cost an additional $6.48 billion. A decision is to be made this year (2005) on the future of Maglevs in Japan.

Hey the the $787,000,000,000 stimulus plan could build a whopping 2872 miles of mag lev track.

Well probably less because we would have to spend a trillion or more to make sure the track and train wouldn't squash some ants or that the slipstream of the train wouldn't kill a butterfly

 

[Mad Scientist]

Earmarks are things that benefit a closed community. LA and Disney are in two states.

Did you mean L.A and Vegas?

The I-15 will take anyone from L.A. to Vegas in 3-5 hours depending on where you start and how fast you drive. No need for this pork, earmark or pet project, whatever the name.

 

[editec]

Mag lev rail transportation would be an excellent stimulus investment.

From San Diego to Maine and from Key West to Seattle.

Include instate walking and biking paths, too to keep goofy people like me happy. They're dirt cheap since they're made of dirt.

The return on invetment in jet airlines is becoming increasingly untenable.

Jets pollute like crazy, they're damned expensive to operate, and we've invested trillions of public money for airports.

Nightly Business Report . Video #23 - Japan: Maglev Trains | PBS

Central Japan Railway is working with the RTRI to build a 310-mile line linking Japan's two largest cities, Tokyo and Osaka, with a one-hour run. Bullet trains now make the trip in two and a half hours. The problem is that building the electromagnetic quideway will cost $85 billion or $274 million per mile (three times higher than the bullet train tracks). The Maglev trains would cost an additional $6.48 billion. A decision is to be made this year (2005) on the future of Maglevs in Japan.

Hey the the $787,000,000,000 stimulus plan could build a whopping 2872 miles of mag lev track.

Well probably less because we would have to spend a trillion or more to make sure the track and train wouldn't squash some ants or that the slipstream of the train wouldn't kill a butterfly

Given that that's about half the cost of the Iraqi war in total, that's a bargain at twice the price.

 

[KittenKoder]

Wait ... whose idiot idea was this? A train ... between Disney Land and Las Vegas ... all glaring reason why it's idiotic aside, the two locations drain more from the economy than they put into it. How is that suppose to help? Get people to spend more money into places that send it all over seas ... smart.

 

[Ravi]

Earmarks are things that benefit a closed community. LA and Disney are in two states.

Did you mean L.A and Vegas?

The I-15 will take anyone from L.A. to Vegas in 3-5 hours depending on where you start and how fast you drive. No need for this pork, earmark or pet project, whatever the name.

Yeah, that's what I meant...lack of caffeine.

Three to five hours is a lot longer than the train would take you. I realize a lot of people fly to save time...but I think even more would take the train and not bother flying. I imagine it would hurt the airline industry, but we've subsidized them long enough.

 

[KittenKoder]

Earmarks are things that benefit a closed community. LA and Disney are in two states.

Did you mean L.A and Vegas?

The I-15 will take anyone from L.A. to Vegas in 3-5 hours depending on where you start and how fast you drive. No need for this pork, earmark or pet project, whatever the name.

Yeah, that's what I meant...lack of caffeine.

Three to five hours is a lot longer than the train would take you. I realize a lot of people fly to save time...but I think even more would take the train and not bother flying. I imagine it would hurt the airline industry, but we've subsidized them long enough.

One of the flaws with that ... waiting time. It's easier but checking in, waiting, boarding ... the total time usually makes it just as time consuming. From what I hear it's not much faster to fly these days either. My friends and I went from LA to LV, took about three hours including rest stops (the driver was a bit of a speed demon). Since I don't drive I take buses and trains when I travel alone, I don't bother with flying.