Using the sense God gave ya!

Has anyone heard about California and their increased effort to push this bullet train idea through? Oh my goodness! What a bunch of idiots!! Yes, that is my favorite word. It's about as strong as I can get without swearing, which when I read about the stupidity I was to scream and cuss up a blue streak. SO, what's the big deal with the bullet train you ask. Well, lets see. It's going to cost $$68.4 billion to construct. That is in current U.S. dollars, no correction for inflation. but wait, you say how can California do this they are broke? hmm, good question. I think some of you might remember when California couldn't actually pay ANY of their state employees. That was before Arnold was governor, but the fact is, the state is still operating in the red. And for the entire time he was in office he didn't get paid. not one penny! And the state still ends up with a current deficit of $$14 billion. The only other states that even come close to that are Texas & Illinois.  I was wondering how in the heck the general public in that state would stand for the construction of that thing since they are fighting to have teachers for their kids. Well the public voters okay $9.95 billion to spend on the train, and the federal government agreed to spend $3 billion on this thing, and they've also come up with $2.6 billion in bond revenue. So, if you can do basic arithmetic, that leaves the project $$$$$53 BILLION DOLLARS SHORT. And as I said before, that's in today's dollars, with no accounting for inflation. Can you imagine how expensive this thing will be in just 5 years? Seriously people, what's so important about this stupid train?! At that price the damn thing should look and be like something out of a Star Trek movie! Do they even have the infrastructure to run high speed trains, or are they going to need to rebuild everything, creating lots of waste & use of more resources? I tried to look at their website to see if I could get any good information. uh, no. It's all propaganda, cause of course, they want their train. Supposedly these trains are built to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The trains will run on electric power and will be modeled after high speed trains worldwide. Since electricity is provided by more alternative sources, I guess I could get behind that small fact for improving the environment. But,  I hate to tell these people, there are more important things to worry about than building that stupid train. Like funding teachers for schools, welfare systems, decreasing college tuition to name a few. Someone needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Where is the heck is every one's common sense? If you don't have the money to build it, and your budget is billions of dollars in the red already, WHY would you want to do something that would put you even further in the red? I have to live on a budget, why doesn't the government?!