California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B

Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by ComputerGuru on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @08:54PM (#16173985)

Are you kidding, that’s your defense?

$2M in taxpayer money is nothing to them. Just like the expense of incarceration didn’t bring down jail terms for minor offenses. Or settlements for police brutality haven’t affected that one iota either.

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Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by selectodude on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @10:21PM (#16174403)

If they did that to ten thousand US citizens (.0031 percent chance of being messed with), a 2 million dollar settlement would cost them $20bn. Affordable, but certainly not a rounding error line item.

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Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by dx034 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @03:54AM (#16175661)

The officers working on the case do not decide about the govt budget. I'm not even sure if the government tracks expenses from those cases and would know how to react if the costs escalate.

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