Xavier Becerra, the Democrat hopeful for California governor, just pledged to “finish” the state’s high-speed rail project “on budget and on time.” On time? That deadline was 2020—six years ago. On budget? Voters approved it in 2008 for about $33 billion. Today it’s ballooned past $100 billion with $14 billion already flushed down the drain, and not a single mile of high-speed track laid. Steve Hilton, Republican candidate for governor, nailed it in a video from the construction site: “There it is, the flagship achievement of Gavin Newsom and 16 years of Democrat one-party rule. This is a high speed train to whisk us from San Francisco to Los Angeles in two and a half hours. It’s open in 2020 didn’t you know? And it was finished for 30 billion dollars. Oh wait! They have still not laid any tracks.”Hilton lays out the farce: “Now they’re saying that maybe if we are lucky it’s gonna take you from San Francisco to Merced on regular train tracks, then from Merced to Bakersfield on high speed rail whenever they finish it and then Bakersfield to LA in a bus which itself could take two and a half hours. That’s the project that they’re now saying if you are lucky will be finished by the end of 2030s for $231 billion. $200 billion over budget. Three decades late. That is not bullet train. That is bullshit train.”As Hilton declares: “When I’m governor I am gonna stop this thing in its tracks. Oh wait! I can’t because they haven’t laid any tracks. But I’m going to stop it anyway.”This isn’t infrastructure—it’s a monument to unchecked Democrat incompetence, endless lawsuits, bureaucratic waste, and one-party arrogance that treats taxpayer dollars like play money. While families struggle with sky-high gas, housing, and taxes, Sacramento elites pour billions into a train to nowhere. Time to end the madness. Stop the boondoggle. Vote for real change.
