Hawaii's 'train to nowhere'
rakes in COVID-19 cash
Posted By: Ribicon, 4/17/2021 11:23:05 AM
You’d be forgiven for wondering what an urban rail system in Honolulu has to do with crushing the coronavirus. Yet tucked inside last month’s nearly $2 trillion COVID-19 spending spree is $70 million headed for Hawaii to bail out a struggling 20-mile railway that has been under construction for a decade, was supposed to have opened a year ago, hasn’t carried a single passenger, and despite the federal help will still find itself a few billion—with a B—in the red.(Snip) For budget watchdogs, the railway is a cautionary tale in boondogglery, combining the worst impulses of local government officials
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Our federal government built a mountain of debt that cannot possibly be retired, but keeps on spending. And because the local folks were spending "federal money," they had an executive director with a salary of $257,000 and they spent $190,000 to create a video game named “Outrun da Train," and before that, a comic book, all to despoil the landscape and pocket a lot of money.