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   Preparing for looming budget battles with the Democratic-controlled   
   Legislature, Gov. Jerry Brown warned Friday that lawmakers must balance   
   "desire and need" for expensive social programs - even as he defiantly   
   doubled down on support for the increasingly unpopular high-speed rail   
   system, saying it remains emblematic of his passion to "build great   
   things" in his final term as governor.   
      
   In a wide-ranging editorial board meeting with The Chronicle's editors and   
   reporters, Brown presented a lively case - characteristically peppered   
   with Latin phrases and literary references - for a fourth term in office,   
   arguing he has helped create an "unprecedented" 1.3 million jobs, reduced   
   unemployment, and put the state back on a track for an economic comeback   
   that is the "biggest in the country."   
      
   "Tell me how you're going to beat that?" he said, laughing. He then added:   
   "I'd just like to keep that going and not screw it up."   
      
   Brown was most passionate in his defense of a high-speed rail plan   
   connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco, a 520-mile project expected to   
   eventually cost $68 billion. The projected outlay has drawn scathing   
   criticism from Republican gubernatorial candidates Assemblyman Tim   
   Donnelly and former Treasury official Neel Kashkari, who has dubbed it the   
   "Crazy Train."   
      
      
   http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Brown-doubles-down-on-high-speed-   
   rail-amid-calls-5484808.php   
      
   Jerry's lights were never very bright from an economic perspective.  Jerry   
   and his staff of Democrat fools, have never considered the total lack of a   
   market for the high-speed rail transportation requirement between Los   
   Angeles and San Francisco.   
      
   They think if they build it, people will come.   
      
   They're wrong.   
      
   Why would people from Los Angeles or San Diego want to travel to San   
   Franciso in the first place?   
      
   San Francisco is crowded, dirty, expensive, and full of male perverts who   
   think nothing of dropping to their knees on a public sidewalk and sucking   
   off a complete stranger.   
      
   What family is going to want to travel 12 hours one way to see that?   
      
   12 hours you say?   
      
   12 hours.  The "high-speed" rail will have to bus people over the   
   grapevine to Bakersfield, where the point of actual train origin will   
   begin.   
      
   The plan of Brown and his band of morons, will have the "high-speed" train   
   stopping at various towns along the way between Losa Angeles and San   
   Francisco.   
      
   Business they say.   
      
   No Jerry.  You and your band of nitwits are living in the past.  We don't   
   travel for business anymore.  Especially in California since you are   
   driving out all the top businesses with excessive taxes and over-   
   regulation.   
      
   Maybe Jerry and the Dummycrats should consider building the high-speed   
   train to Texas, since that is where the bulk of the revenue producing   
   businesses of California are headed as fast as they can pack and leave.   
      
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