Oh? And what makes you think they won't be forced out next? Hmmm? Or that UP won't "convince" them to switch over to trucks? Or just abandon the line due to a lack of traffic? Like Carol said, people there are not industry-friendly; they don't want some smelly, noisy, ugly railroad and the equally unwanted customers it serves "ruining our property values" or some crap like that.

Makes me glad I left in 1995 and never came back; there's no way I could live in the Bay Area or the San Joaquin Valley (or anywhere else in California, for that matter) after all of the crap that's happened since, and certainly not with the elected idiots continuing to ruin things there. And no, I am not slamming anyone who still lives in CA; I realize a lot of you have jobs, family there, or a dozen other perfectly good reasons not to leave (or why you can't leave, as the case may be). I was born and raised there when it was still a decent place to live and work, and if California hadn't gone downhill like it has I'd still be there. It has though, and it really hurts to have seen it happen, even if only from a distance, and it angers me to see that the same sort of clowns (or the very same clowns, including Governor Moonbeam) who helped cause it all (or did nothing to stop it, which amounts to the same thing) are still at it; term limits don't help much when one idiot gets replaced by another.
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