Harry Reid's Toy Train

Harry Reid’s Toy Train

We’ve all heard of the scandalous $320 milion Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska. It was intended to link the metropolis of Ketchikan to the island of Gravina, population 50, and was finally shot down by Congress.

Somewhat fewer Americans have heard of the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport in Pennsylvania. Democrat Rep. Murtha, the undisputed King of Pork, has suckered the federal government–that would be us taxpayers–to funnel over $200 million so far into the airport, replete with state of the art technology.

The only person who regularly flies into and out of the facility is John Murtha.

His semi-private airport not only has not been de-funded but Murtha even wheedled $800,000 out of Obama’s stimulus package to re-pave a backup runway, just in case the main runway deteriorates from underuse.

Senate Majority Leader, Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada poohpoohs such piddling expenditures and waste with his challenge to fellow spendthrifts to just try to top this: $8 BILLION to build his grown-up version of a set of Lionels!

Senator Harry wants to link Vegas to L.A. with a monorail system, technically a light rail high speed train covering the 265 miles from Sin City to its California terminus, Victorville.

Why not? He’s not paying for it. The money . . .

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)