They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can’t kill the beast. —The Eagles, “Hotel California,” 1977 With Congress eliminating spending for the President’s faltering high-speed rail (HSR) program and making cuts in Amtrak’s… Read more
Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane, Ain’t got time to take a fast train. Lonely days are gone, I’m a-goin’ home,‘Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter. … Read more
President Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2012 is an unabashed attempt to grow government and add $1 trillion to the national debt. While a detailed review of the flaws in the President’s budget is beyond the scope of this paper,[1] one of the budget’s more fiscally… Read more
Abstract: President Barack Obama’s high-speed rail program promises to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in federal and state funds to provide mediocre passenger rail service to an extremely small fraction of travelers. In this time of tight budgets, neither the federal government nor… Read more
The House Budget Committee has announced its discretionary federal spending target for the remaining eight months of fiscal year (FY) 2011, and the House Appropriations Committee subsequently provided details on how the 12 major program areas would have to be cut to meet that target. The transportation/housing account will receive… Read more
As is apparent from President Obama’s declining approval ratings, the majority of Americans have lost confidence in the ability of Washington’s leadership to get the economy moving again. More to the point, many now recognize that the $814 billion in spending authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)… Read more
Revised and updated April 13, 2010 Abstract: President Barack Obama has committed the United States to building at least 13 high-speed rail (HSR) lines, one of the most expensive… Read more
In April, President Obama confirmed his commitment to fund a high-speed rail (HSR) program in the United States and extolled the potential benefits of the $8 billion for HSR that Congress included in the stimulus package. That commitment grew by another $5 billion ($1 billion per year) when the President released… Read more
Ernest Istook discussing the drawbacks to federal funding for high speed rail. … Read more
Last week, the independent California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group recommended that the state legislature not...… Read more
Imagine a high-speed train zooming down hundreds of miles of glistening train track stretching across sunny...… Read more
Want a fast way to blow some taxpayer dollars? Buy a ticket on President Barack Obama's high-speed spending...… Read more
Last week, Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) rejected $2.4 billion in federal funding for a proposed high-speed rail line...… Read more
Elected officials in Washington finally seem to get it that something must be done to reduce federal spending. Last...… Read more
President Obama’s proposed $53-billion more for “high-speed rail” (on top of a previous $10-billion) is a testimony to...… Read more
Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan Last month, after the governor-elects of Ohio and...… Read more
Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan Yesterday, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood...… Read more
The Obama administration is still in denial about the message the American people sent Washington last Tuesday. In...… Read more
President Barack Obama famously believes that all of his policies are supported by "facts and science," while...… Read more