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Originally Posted by mac78130
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Gibbons sounds like a douche...and btw, I'm no big fan of Reid or Obama. Nevada already has a few hundered yards of mavlev. That's the reality. There's also the fact that when you're slicing up only $8B--it's naturally going to go to more populous areas. That's how it works with HSR.
That's actually my big gripe with Obama and Reid--the $8B. China just announced $300B for HSR. They're in a quandry though. The only place the money could come from is the massively bloated Pentagon budget--the US spends more on "defense" than the rest of the world combined. Is Gibbons on board to get some transportation funds that way? Doubt it...not that Obama or Ried have even suggested it. It's kinda hard to spend all your money on eternal wars and bases in 160 countries--and expect more than bread crumbs for public transportation.
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Gov. Jim Gibbons blamed Reid and President Barack Obama for Nevada’s lack of funding for the maglev project.
“Nevada already has a high-speed magnetic levitation train plan in place,” Gibbons said in the statement. “It is disgusting and disgraceful that Reid and Obama ignored our efforts.”
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