Rush Limbaugh Mar 12, 2020

In a random act of journalism the Los Angeles Times, looked into the multi billion dollar high speed bullet train that is supposed to fight global warming if it ever gets build and if anybody bothers to ride the thing.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In a random act of journalism, the Los Angeles Times
looked into the multibillion dollar high speed bullet train that
is supposed to fight global warming if it ever gets
built and if anybody bothers to ride the thing. The
high speed train is years behind the schedule. Just since
two thousand eighteen, the cost has jumped from sixty four

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billion dollars to seventy seven billion dollars, more delays and
cost overruns or cummings, not even factoring in the coronavirus
to it. Among the problems the l A. Times reports
is the operating culture at the building services consultancy for
the train, a global company called WSP. Now Allegedly, employees

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who tell the truth about problems with the California train
project are told to shut up and tow the companyline.
If they don't, they faced the coronavirus. A top executive
brought into work on the project says the people in
charge have no technical background. They never disclosed the real costs,
so they don't tell the real truth. There's just a

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bunch of politicians, and this expert says, the best thing
that can be done with California's high speed train is
to cancel all the contracts and start over. Now. For
years I've told you this, high speed trains are trained
to nowhere. Never was a good idea, and it will
never be a good idea. The smartest thing to do
after canceling all the contracts would be to scrub the

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whole project and blame it on the coronavirus.