10 billion dollars is the amount California voters agreed to borrow to construct a high speed train to go from L.A. to San Francisco. Let me explain what the idiot California voters did. You kind of have to peel this thing apart like an onion as there are a few layers to it. First of all the idiot voters voted for a bond (which you should never do period)! This was voted for in 2008 during one of the worst economic recessions ever. I doubt that most of the people who voted for the train will ever even use it. Becuase the bond was voted in, the state government had to create another bloated bureaucracy called the "California High-speed Rail Authority" whose commission members are about to reward a $9 million, 5 year, public relations contract for people to talk about a high speed rail line. A train track needs its own public relations company that you (not me I'm not in CA right now) are going to pay $9 million for! To make matters worse, the state is taking some of the borrowed money and giving it to Sacramento hacks. Mercury Public Affairs, the public relations firm that is going to receive the contract, has as its partners, politically connected bozos; such as Fabian Nuñez, the former assembly speaker who liked to travel around the world on his $100,000 plus salary collecting high priced goods like wine and leather goods, high class resort hotels, fine food. He'd go to Paris and drop a thousand dollars buying gifts for his slime ball staff. Adam Mendelson, the governors current political adviser and former communications director, is also with Mercury Public Affairs as well as Steve Schmidt , who ran the governor's 2006 re-election campaign. It so happens to be that 5/18 staffers that Mercury wants to use on this project have worked for Schwarzenegger. 2 of the staff panelists who chose Mercury Public Affairs to take this project have also worked for Schwarzenegger.
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