{"id":13232,"date":"2011-03-09T01:17:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T01:17:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-09T01:17:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T01:17:14","slug":"dumbest-quote-of-the-day-on-hsr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/09\/dumbest-quote-of-the-day-on-hsr\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbest Quote of the Day: On HSR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Kevin McCarthy:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you can&#8217;t prove it&#8217;s viable from a business plan, it&#8217;s not a (project) the government should be funding (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2011\/03\/08\/3459454\/house-majority-whip-mccarthy-california.html#ixzz1G3SgyjqT\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure it is worth going any further than that, but I will. Rep. McCarthy said that about HSR, while at the same time his central Valley Congressional cohorts are saying that the money approved for HSR should be put towards widening Highway 99.<\/p>\n<p>Can we think about this for a while? He&#8217;s criticizing rail for not making enough money back. &nbsp;When exactly have roads ever paid for themselves? &nbsp;When we do toll up roads, people are outraged (occasionally justifiably).<\/p>\n<p>With gas prices at or above $4, can we just finally quit the ridiculous canard that roads are a good long-term solution? &nbsp;Either we work on making HSR happen, or you need to present an actual solution that both addresses the needs of a state of over 40 million people as well as climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Sticking your head in the ground and hoping for the 1980s to come back doesn&#8217;t actually help California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Kevin McCarthy:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you can&#8217;t prove it&#8217;s viable from a business plan, it&#8217;s not a (project) the government should be funding (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2011\/03\/08\/3459454\/house-majority-whip-mccarthy-california.html#ixzz1G3SgyjqT\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure it is worth going any further than that, but I will. Rep. McCarthy said that about HSR, while at the same time his central Valley Congressional cohorts are saying that the money approved for HSR should be put towards widening Highway 99.<\/p>\n<p>Can we think about this for a while? He&#8217;s criticizing rail for not making enough money back. &nbsp;When exactly have roads ever paid for themselves? &nbsp;When we do toll up roads, people are outraged (occasionally justifiably).<\/p>\n<p>With gas prices at or above $4, can we just finally quit the ridiculous canard that roads are a good long-term solution? &nbsp;Either we work on making HSR happen, or you need to present an actual solution that both addresses the needs of a state of over 40 million people as well as climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Sticking your head in the ground and hoping for the 1980s to come back doesn&#8217;t actually help California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4736],"class_list":["post-13232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-4736"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3rq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}