This completely disgusts me.  Money earned the hard way by working Americans transferred by corrupt politicians to their own pockets using fake, unneeded and unwanted public projects.

   "As the California Political News and Views has been reporting for years, the high speed rail is about unions and special interests, not the needs of the people of California.  Guv Brown gave the first construction contract for the slow train to no where to the firm where the principal is Richard Blum, husband of Senator Feinstein.  Remember, while the bid was “lowest”—that is not the real price—as the project goes forward the costs will increase, like all government special interest projects.

“The Perini-Zachary-Parsons bid was the lowest received from the five consortia participating in the bidding process, but “low” is a relative term. The firms bid $985,142,530 to build the wildly anticipated first section of high speed rail track that will tie the megopolis of Madera to the global finance center of Fresno. Do the division, and you find that the low bid came in at a mere $35 million per mile.

And that doesn’t include the cost of rolling stock (that’s engines and cars to the normal among us). Nor does it include the cost of electrifying the route. Does it at least include the cost of land acquisition? No, it does not.”

Much more at the link.