Harry Reid’s stimulating rail to Vegas
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.
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I am ashamed that he is our Senator.
He’ll get ANOTHER letter from me.
One of the links mentioned Specter’s pork package, which included $10 billion for the National Institutes of Health, which wasn’t cut back. Wonder what pork Snowe & Collins got. Oh yeah, I forgot, Chuckie said none of us care about a little pork!
lgm: Talk about the pot calling the kettle black (OOOH, is that RAAACIST!?!?)
Bud, just because SanFranNan says there is no pork doesn’t mean there is no pork. If you think the LA-Vegas train isn’t pork for Dingy Reid, then you are truly delusional and beyond help.
nail49 said (#93):
Maybe pork, but not an earmark.
Finally, lgm admits it is something we don’t need! Call it pork, call it an earmark, this “Stimulus” is a cancer that will metastasize into something we don’t need now or in the future!