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To: KLP who wrote (253439)	6/6/2008 7:22:19 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793670

This sounds good.... ~~ Levitating train from L.A. to Las Vegas gets boost Hmmm, I wonder.. $45 million for the futuristic project...It will pay for environmental studies* for the first leg of the project.* 45 mil for "environmental studies"?? 45 mil (taxpayers $$'s) to determine if a couple of desert turtles might get squashed on the tracks?? How much will actually building and deploying the thing cost?? And who's going to pay for it?? There is no train on the route—Amtrak's Desert Wind between Los Angeles and Las Vegas was canceled in 1997 because of low ridership. Hello, anybody home?? Anybody think that this train will even come remotely close to paying it's way?? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., praised passage of the law, Anything that that dimbulb enthuses about should raise multiple red flags...