That's what also angers me about the metro area mayors reaction. They have no sense of a greater good. Their attitude is a selfish, self centered, self service, "me, me, me, or nobody at all" type attitude. They have to realize that if another tax increase fails, delaying the Gold and East line (as they want) would actually loose up to $1 billion in Federal funding and jeopardize an additional $1 billion in private funding out of the $4.7 Billion FasTracks total budget.
That would effectively risk cutting the total FasTracks budget down to $2.7 billion and none of the lines other than the West Corridor would be built to designed length or on time. And when more funding could be found 20 years from now, the East line would be built first anyway, before their precious North, Northwest and I-225 lines.
This really demonstrates the inability of these mayors to think logically. I'm sorry, but Americans continue to elect morons into office and then expect great things from them. It's not our fault though, the system is set up so that only rich aristocrats can run for major office. Is there a correlation between wealth, self serving thinking and politics?
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