{"id":89469,"date":"2013-05-01T20:22:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89469"},"modified":"2013-05-01T20:22:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T02:22:16","slug":"the-high-cost-of-low-information-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89469","title":{"rendered":"The High Cost of Low-Information Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2013\/04\/the-high-cost-of-low-information-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\">William A. Jacobson<\/a> takes a look at &#8216;high speed&#8217; rail.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Look at the travel time scale.\u00a0 First it assumes the train will move at 220 mph \u2014 quite a feat.\u00a0 If you ever have taken the Acela train in the Northeast Corridor you know that this is pie in the sky.\u00a0 Plus, even at that unobtainable speed, the trip from New York to L.A. would take almost a day of actual travel time \u2014 as opposed to a few hours on a plane.\u00a0 Good luck selling those tickets.<\/p>\n<p>And cost?\u00a0 We have covered the massive cost overruns and time delays just to build a high speed rail from L.A. to San Francisco.\u00a0 Imagine that on a national scale.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to poke fun at low information voters.\u00a0 Until you realize how much they cost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William A. Jacobson takes a look at &#8216;high speed&#8217; rail. Look at the travel time scale.\u00a0 First it assumes the train will move at 220 mph \u2014 quite a feat.\u00a0 If you ever have taken the Acela train in the Northeast Corridor you know that this is pie in the sky.\u00a0 Plus, even at that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89471,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89469\/revisions\/89471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}