California Schemin'

California Gov. Gavin “Slick” Newsome just essentially conceded defeat as regards his once grandiose High-Speed Rail [HSR] plans. He recently withdrew the lawsuit he’d filed after federal funding was cut off earlier this year. 

Almost inconceivably, the cost of the state’s HSR plan, originally estimated at $33 billion, has grown to $128 billion. The other problem is that virtually no track has been laid in the 17 years since the project’s inception. The $14 billion already spent has accomplished nothing. There is neither track nor train. Only government could produce these results. This is not exactly the Transcontinental Railroad. Rather it is proof that progressives, in one of history’s most bittersweet ironies, are no longer capable of building things. Yet the erstwhile Golden State’s politicians are still hungry for money to feed the now preposterous project. Imagine that.

The cost of building the Transcontinental Railroad, completed in 1869, was approximately $60 million, which is only about $1.2 billion in today's money. Prior to the railroad's completion, travel across the United States cost nearly $1,000. After its completion, the cost dropped to around 150 bucks. That was an amazing return on investment, not a colossal boondoggle like Cali’s High-Speed Rail.

California legislators have also been busy attempting to make it a requirement for any and all tortillas consumed in the state to contain an additive that more than a fourth of the state’s population likely cannot process, according to some reports. The Land of Milk and Honey will now mandate that its tortillas are imbued with folic acid, supposedly to help prevent birth defects, particularly those affecting Latina mothers. Unfortunately, folks with a certain common gene mutation cannot properly process folic acid, and ergo it becomes toxic in their bloodstream.

According to a post on PJ media, this means that the majority of Californians have between a 36% and 47% chance of experiencing adverse reactions from the additive.

As Ronald Reagan once noted, the nine scariest words in the English language are: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

             Targeting Hispanics with an additive in tortillas?! What’s next for progressives, targeting Gen Zers with an “additive” in avocado toast? (Actually, I might be for that one if it was a substance that made them stop saying the eff word, “like,” and “feeling any kind of way.”