"A private company built a 235-mile high-speed train from Orlando to Miami in 11 years for about $6 billion. Yet it has taken California more than a decade merely to bulldoze permitting barriers and clear lawsuits." "If Democrats in Sacramento won’t pay for their vanity project out of their own coffers, why should taxpayers in Cleveland or Atlanta?" "California’s bullet train, whether or not it ever carries passengers, is a monument to the colossal failures of modern progressive government. From welfare programs to public schools, Democrats make illusory promises as they shovel out money without regard to the results. When will California voters decide they’re tired of getting taken for a ride?"