Letters to the Editor: Trump’s looming cuts to high-speed rail project represent a ‘backward vision’

To the editor : The Pentagon is projected to spend a staggering $2.1 trillion on the F-35 fighter jet program. This weapons system has been plagued by cost overruns, technical failures and delays. Many military analysts now consider the F-35 already obsolete, a Cold War relic in a world facing very different threats.

Yet, the Trump administration has raised no concerns. In fact, it’s proposed increasing the Pentagon’s budget by $150 billion this year , funneling even more money into machines of war.

Now contrast that with California’s high-speed rail project: a first-of-its-kind system in the U.S. that’s projected to create tens of thousands of jobs , stimulate billions in economic activity and drastically reduce carbon emissions. Instead of supporting this vision of a c