California’s high-speed rail project was supposed to revolutionize travel. Instead, it’s become a monument to government incompetence. Taxpayers are funding a train that doesn’t exist, while families and farmers pay the price.

The project’s original $33 billion price tag has ballooned to over $128 billion. Delays stretch into decades, with no completed tracks despite 16 years of construction. Experts now call it the most expensive infrastructure failure in U.S. history.

Central Valley farmers watch their lands get seized through eminent domain for empty dirt berms. One family’s 400-acre farm was cut in half for tracks that end abruptly in fields. Their generational livelihood destroyed for a politician’s vanity project.

New leadership promised to “build faster,” but reports show the same old failures. The 2025 update admits they still lack full funding and face “external opposition” — bureaucratic code for angry citizens sick of the waste.

$6.8 billion in federal funds vanished into consultants’ pockets and environmental studies. Meanwhile, California’s roads crumble and wildfires rage. Real needs ignored for a woke climate fantasy that will never move a single passenger.

This train was sold as connecting major cities. Today, the only “progress” is a short segment between minor Central Valley towns. Las Vegas rail projects laugh as California’s incompetence hands them business.

Democrats keep throwing good money after bad, hoping you won’t notice their failure. They’d rather bankrupt the state than admit government can’t build anything. Hardworking Americans foot the bill for their arrogance.

Real solutions come from free markets — not bloated state projects. California’s rail disaster proves big government always costs more, delivers less, and tramples the little guy. It’s time to derail this boondoggle forever.