There are few things in life that annoy me as much as people just being plain dumb, but today I came across one of the best or worst examples (depending on how you look at it) I've ever seen.
Let me give you some background on this post. I've been doing research for school on the new High Speed Rail system that is beginning to be put in place across the country. If everything comes together like they're planning it's going to be pretty cool and revolutionize the way we travel in the US. The other bonus to this is that it's going to create ALOT of jobs right when our country really needs them.
That is unless you live in Wisconsin.........If you live there then you just elected a guy name Scott Walker to be your next governor and part of his political platform was to keep High Speed Rail out of Wisconsin because it would cost over $800million to build and cost taxpayers $10 million per year to run it. He did fail to mention that it would create 5,588 jobs starting in 2011 (in a state with 7% unemployment), generate $25 million in revenue annually and that the Federal Govt had $624 million ready to give to Wisconsin and Ohio for the project (for free!!!!!). Well since Walker won the election he's rejected the Federal Govt's money for the railroad (Ohio's new governor did the same thing) and it's been diverted to 13 other states who are already working on their own development. Illinois has started to work on a rail line between St. Louis and Chicago and which received $42.3 million of the rejected money. They at least were nice enough to post billboards right by the Wisconsin border thanking Gov. Walker for giving them so much free money.
Below is the campaign video Gov. Walker made to promote his airheadedness and then a few response articles.
Illinois News Report 1
Illinois News Report 2
Milwaukee Examiner Report
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