Ohio and Wisconsin lose high-speed rail funding.

[Swede]

Citing two incoming governors' opposition to high-speed rail projects in the Midwest, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood redirected $810 million away from Wisconsin and $400 million from Ohio to other states. California is getting the lion's share, $624 million for its link between Los Angeles and San Francisco. $342 million is going to Florida with the remainder divided among Washington and 10 other states.

Is the U.S. turning a corner on high-speed rail?

Along with the money comes jobs. In Wisconsin, the outgoing governor Jim Doyle claimed over 4,700 jobs directly related to the high-speed rail line between Milwaukee and Madison would have been realized at the height of construction.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/15/high.speed.rail/index.html?hpt=C2

[doc03]

1. John Kasich hasn't even took office yet and he has cost us

$400 million and thousands of jobs.

[T Wolf]

2. The "power of the purse" must be used to redirect as much funding as possible from the parasitic red

states toward the productive blue ones.

If it can also be used to provide consequences for stupid electoral decision-making by the voters in a state, so much the better.

The pukes do not want to pay taxes. Fine. Let them do without the funds.

[MadHound]

8. Oh, yeah, that's right,

Punish everybody in those states, that's so compassionate:eyes:

[xchrom]

3. Good. Now please give that money to the states who have asked for it. Nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Thank you, WI and OH.

Now get those boobs out of office next time.

[doc03]

7. How short peoples memories are, before this recession

Ted Strickland was one of the most popular Governors in the USA. He followed one of the most corrupt and incompetent Governors in Ohio history that was actually convicted of a felony. Then two short years after he gets swept out of office by one of the very people that engineered the recession.

[elocs]

5. What gov. elect Walker has already done to Wisconsin:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x48

A gift at the expense of Wisconsin from Walker: $624 million to California, $342.2 million to Florida, $161.5 million to Washington, and a paltry $42.3 million to Illinois. Goodbye to thousands of jobs as well. Yes, and as the editorial stated, some of that money did come from Wisconsin taxpayers as well. It's going to be a long 6 years here with this guy and the nutjob who beat Feingold.

[Kennah]

6. Shifting the money to those who really want it ...

... only makes sense.

I applaud and welcome more HSR, but I have trouble with the term high speed rail applied when we're only talking 110 MPH. To be sure, some of the corridors will hit speeds upwards of 220 MPH; however, I think there's going to be a lot of buyer's remorse when people realize we're only talking about 110 MPH along some stretches of track.