› Boswell Continues to Support Wasteful Spending

It is almost cliché.  Leonard Boswell is completely out of touch with Iowa and District Three.  It is almost weekly he has worked to help contrive another way to spend our money in the most reckless way possible.  He would have had better luck in Vegas than in most of the endeavors where he has worked to spend taxpayer’s money.

The newest waste?  High-speed rail.  Boswell and others worked to receive over $18 million dollars from the Department of Transportation to invest in high-speed rail here in Iowa “including $1 million for a series of studies for a passenger rail line to run from Chicago to Omaha by way of Iowa,” according to Riverside Iowa Newspaper.  $1 million to study passenger rail when we have the perfect case study called…Amtrak; one of government’s modern-day business failures.

Boswell was quoted saying, “As a longtime advocate for high-speed rail, I have fought for a passenger line that spans the state and connects Chicago and Omaha for quite some time”…”This $1 million award to the state will start the planning process and is a vital first step in getting this much-need transportation investment off the ground. The benefits of this important rail line are limitless and I will continue to fight for additional funding for this and other high-speed rail projects in the state.”

Again, Boswell ignores the private and public investments in our air transportation and interstate road systems that have served us for so long. Iowan’s have voted with their dollars and time, we don’t need another expansion of wasteful spending to buy a few votes.

Again, this is absurd.  What makes Leonard Boswell think expanding passenger rail in Iowa will help us in anyway?  It’s as though he cannot help himself but to spend our money in the most obviously wasteful methods possible.  It’s as though he’s testing to see how reckless he can be with our money before we elect him out of office.  Iowans do not need high-speed rail.  Iowans need work.  They need to find jobs.  $18 million invested in passenger rail is not going to do that.  Sure, Boswell is likely to come out saying this will create more jobs, but just like most of the jobs the government has created, once it’s done, your put back in the unemployment line.