NBC's Brokaw: California's 'Aging Lion' Jerry Brown 'Has Not Given Up On Big Dreams'
By: Kyle Drennen
Friday, January 27, 2012 3:53 PM EST
BROKAW: Now that he's back in California for his third term, a lot has changed. Governor Brown is a lot older, it's a new century. It's not sunshine every day for the California economy, but Jerry Brown has not given up on big dreams. His new big dream, a high-speed rail line from the north to the south, through many rural areas, to redistribute the population. How would that help the state's biggest gridlock, the 24/7 traffic jams around greater Los Angeles? I don't have any problem getting from the north to south. I have problems getting across town in Los Angeles. Isn't that a higher priority?
BROWN: When we look at 20 million more people coming to this state, you can't build more airports. You can't build more runways. And you can't build more freeways.
Brokaw's question and his point are the right ones. Brown doesn't answer the question at all; he ignores it. In response, he just spouts the meaningless BS from the CHSRA brochures.
Who says "you" can't build more runways and freeways? What's stopping us? Lack of money? Because we have it for the train?
Are those 20 million new people, when they get to California, going to be riding the most expensive train-ride available? Not if they can't afford it.
This comes down, yet again, to the point that for our Governor, the project has nothing to do with building a train about which he appears to know nothing; it's all about getting the money.
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