Someone should take away any sharp instruments from all GOP politicians. This is a loser for us, fiscally and politically. Thaken for the Sun Rail website.

“What about operation and maintenance (O&M) costs?
Once open, SunRail will receive an allocation of federal funds each year. There will also be ?fare-box? revenue from passenger fees and potential advertising revenue to offset operating costs. This will cover a portion of the annual operations and maintenance (O&M) costs. The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is picking up the remaining O&M costs, commonly called the ?operating subsidy?, for the first seven years to prepare for and during the I-4 reconstruction work. After that, local governments will be responsible for the remaining O&M amount.””

I guess I should take heart that at least they are telling us the truth that this is a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSER designed to redistribute wealth to somewhere between 4 and 12,000 people a day. I feel better now knowing they think I am only half stupid.

At least Cary Baker ran away for this. I suggest everyone get behind him instead of Adam Putnam (Ag Commissioner Race).

We have in Florida a special history regarding rail that should have had this one dead and buried a long time ago, Metrorail in Dade County. IN the early 1980′s they opened this rail system “declaring” it would pay for itself with a daily rider ship of 100,000. The actual first year riderhsip was more like 8,000.

It got so bad at one point Dade County thought about shutting the system down, until the federal government told them they would have to pay back the 670 million dollars the Feds contributed. It has been hemoraghing ever since. At one point, David Stockman Budget Director under Ronald Reagan, said about metrorail:

It would have been cheaper for the Federal government to purchase a chauffered limousine for each rider”

Then we have which is loved by the 13,000 riders a dya that used that system Unfortunately, the taxpayers of Florida have to subsidize the fare of 6.90 with another 5.00 for every trip on that train, yes, another massive LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSER.

What can I say, blood is hooting out of my eyes and my head explodes, while spinning at 33000 RPM. Just what I would expect the California legislature to do.

Florida is required to balance our budget by Constitutional Amendment. This past year was a gut wrenching year. We had to make deep cuts and raise taxes to get this to happen. Sadly, the next 2 years are likely to make that process look like a day in the park. Crists embracing the stimulus is going to cause us no untold maountain of trouble in achieving a balanced budget. Note to all school board members:

I know you all came crying to every meeting last year begging us to pressure the legislature to “save the children” from the budget ax. In as much as next year will even be worse, please have your loved ones remove all sharp insturments and firearms from your houses. You are likely to get suicidal thuis year.

Remember, you will have significantly less for education next year so the state could build a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSER for between 4-12,00 people to ride per day. I guess if they are all teachers that might be OK with you. Otherwise, you might want to question the priorities.

At a certain point, when do you have to look yourself in the eye and not have to admit, the countyy is being run by people too stupid to operate a checkbook…or…in the alternative…who are traitors spending us into certain bankruptcy.