by Dante Atkins Sat Nov 06, 2010 at 02:46:04 PM PDT
After campaigning on a platform of "Where are the jobs?", the newly Republican Midwest will quite suddenly have fewer of them. As zwoof mentioned, Governor-Elect Kasich in Ohio has killed the federally-funded passenger rail project that would have connected Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland. Apparently, Kasich does not like the idea of putting Ohioans to work building new infrastructure that would keep a ton of people employed and provide people with a transportation option that would reduce fossil fuel consumption.
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, 300 people working on the high-speed rail project that would connect Madison and Milwaukee have been let go owing to the election of Republican Scott Walker, who has vowed to kill the $810 million federally funded project over the objections of both mayors, who say that it will revitalize their downtown areas and create and sustain economic development.
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