Boneheadism at the Fresno Bee

My local paper has been advocating for High Speed Rail, under the assumption that money is available from DC. Now they discover the money is not all there for transit, and it comes with expensive strings, and it was our taxes to begin with.

It's a crying shame, but Gov. Jerry Brown had no choice but to exempt transit workers from the state's pension reform law, at least temporarily. The U.S. Department of Labor was poised to cut off billions in federal grants to local transit districts if California did not back off. So the governor has made a strategic retreat. Fresno Bee Editorial

Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/09/08/3482762/editorial-brown-must-press-fight.html#storylink=cpy

All the rags in central valley making a discovering that all the rags in central valley are stupid. Let me repeat, working with DC is a loser when you have only one fifth of a Senator on your side. Try a little long division. Divide up the number of Senators by the number of Congressional districts. Do that for a few states. Do that and we will learn why California is both a poor state, a highly taxed state, loses 25 cents on the dollar to DC, and spends near the bottom on education. Add to that the inherent corruption of Nancy Pelosi, Darrel Steinberg and the unions. Pretty friggen obvious why California is a laggard and in constant budget trouble.