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Gov. Jerry Brown is on a mission to prevent the United States from becoming a Third World country, and he says the solution is a high-speed railroad in California.

"We're not going to be a Third World country if I have anything to do with it," Brown said in a Friday morning interview on KCBS-AM in San Francisco. Fourteen countries already have high-speed rail, but the United States does not. Burbank Leader

I admire Jerry's desire to enrich Washington DC with California taxes. But the California tax payer cannot afford all of Jerry Brown's DC patriotism, especially when we barely have a vote in DC. If Jerry wants to save the Union, then I would suggest the first step is a California default and rebellion.