CALIFORNIA HIGH SPEED RAIL AND THE USUAL NANCY PELOSI AND GAVIN NEWSOM:BILLION DOLLAR BOONDAGLE

Democrats have long touted California’s high-speed rail as an example of an alternative form of transportation, while reducing greenhouse gases and revitalizing the struggling Central Valley. As an added bonus, the state has repeatedly said the rail’s construction would bring decent construction jobs to the Golden State. But now it’s looking as though the state padded the rail’s jobs numbers.
According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, banners in the San Joaquin Valley previously touted “5,000 workers and counting” near the rail’s construction site. The problem, however, is the state “has never had anywhere near 5,000 construction workers on the high-speed rail project at any one time,” the Times concluded.