Feb 24, 2009 ... A widely repeated claim that $8 billion is set aside for a "levitating train" to  Disneyland is untrue. That total is for unspecified high-speed rail projects, and  some of it may or may not end up going to a proposed 300-mph "maglev" train  connecting Anaheim, Calif., with Las Vegas. There's no money in the bill ...
Feb 24, 2009 ... While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with  wasteful spending. It includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government,  $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a "magnetic levitation" line from  Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called ...
Apr 20, 2009 ... Earlier this month Obama announced $8 billion in stimulus funds — and a  request for $5 billion more over five years — toward high-speed rail projects. The  government has identified 10 corridors across the country that could potentially  receive funding, from a Los Angeles-San Francisco line to a route ...
Feb 25, 2009 ... Judging from a scan of memeorandum and my RSS feed, quite literally everyone  writing about Bobby Jindal's national coming out party, his Republican response  to Obama's non-State of the Union address, thought it was an epic fail. Indeed,  seemingly everyone came to the independent conclusion that his ...
Mar 24, 2009 ... ... in the government's stimulus package. “While some of the projects in the bill  make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending and includes $300- million to buy new cars for the government, $8-billion for high speed rail projects,  such as a magnetic levitation line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, ...
The stimulus bill includes "$8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a 'magnetic levitation' line from Las Vegas to Disneyland."