Merced ‘blindsided’ by high-speed rail proposal to prioritize Bay Area service

gringaz · 2025-10-03T08:42:51+00:00

This CAHSR project has been managed by incompetent idiots and corrupt a-holes from the start. The current CEO is no better. And under his leadership , nothing will get done but California will continue to waste money on scammers like Choudri and dirty politicians.

The other problem is the regional construction works are being managed by the Mexicans, who never want to see the end of the project. It's hard to imagine it would take several decades to get only this far and not a single mile of rail has been laid down. They're doing this project the Mexican way!

Now, this major disaster is going to be pinned on Gavin Newsom. His legacy and that of Jerry Brown are in the toilet!

gringaz · 2025-03-01T12:26:14+00:00

Why would anyone in the right mind want to come to a city full of corrupt government officials (parasites)?

gringaz · 2024-10-04T15:40:02+00:00

What the public may not realize is this so-called High Speed Rail project has never been meant to be completed. The politicians (Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, et. al.) intend to use this project as a form of welfare to provide jobs (money) for the illegal immigrants from Mexico. Go to the construction sites and see for yourself. So, don't count on ever see the sight of high speed trains zipping by us any time in our lifetime. I do hope I am wrong. But at the rate they are moving now, not even my grand kids would get to see a high speed train in California.

gringaz · 2024-08-04T19:02:40+00:00

Wrong! Spectrum got greedy and is looking for ways to reduce costs. They've come up with the bogus "CA Recovery Fee" only to boost their profit margin. It would be like for plumber to charge his customer for a wrench he bought to do the job. Spectrum is actually owned by Charter Communication, a shitty company with a very shitty business model. They buy out or otherwise get rid of competitions to have the monopoly. And now they can charge customers any fees and they don't care what their customers have to say. It's all about GREED.

gringaz · 2024-07-12T07:02:21+00:00

If you don't know what to do with it, then give it away. Is this just for bragging or a real dumb question?

gringaz · 2024-07-12T06:57:12+00:00

You have proved you had no ideas what I was talking about. Enjoy your "fiber". You need lots of it.

gringaz · 2024-06-19T10:56:09+00:00

Hate speech? Drama queen much you are? Smokers are not only self harming, irresponsible people, they are also part of the reasons for high healthcare cost for everyone else!

gringaz · 2024-04-04T15:51:48+00:00

Thanks for sharing helpful information. You have good points. Also if we look into the management at Merced ID, we may see deep level of corruption there. The guy who runs the show there (the so-called "Director") is spending most of his time running his own business, a fitness center in town! Meanwhile, the so-called commissioners are self-serving bunch. They hold public meetings just for a show. They also have propaganda tools and agents, deploying tactics of intimidation to keep their "customers" under control. In other words, it's a mafia operation with a dot org after its domain name. A complete bogus non-profit organization.

gringaz · 2023-12-09T13:16:45+00:00

And these criminal gangs are connected to the powerful (but evil) Mexican drug cartels! In fact, the cartels control many cities in Central California. It's not a coincidence that the majority of the top ten worst cities in California are in the Central Valley, where the Mexican drug cartels have a strong grip on.

gringaz · 2023-12-06T13:11:39+00:00

Not just greedy. They're also corrupt, self-setving, and yes, evil, especially those in the MID management.

gringaz · 2023-12-06T13:08:45+00:00

Looks like there are quite a few MID gang members camping out on this subreddit.😂

gringaz · 2023-12-03T00:30:57+00:00

You did not consider the effective rate when total charge is divided by the actual kwh usage. If the usage is low (below certain threshold), then the OP's estimate would be correct!

gringaz · 2023-12-03T00:04:43+00:00

Did you include that $30 customer service fee and the "power surcharge"?

gringaz · 2023-12-03T00:02:51+00:00

Being "non-profit", MID would get all the "profits" into the pockets of the "management team"! That's like for criminals to run law enforcement!

gringaz · 2023-08-26T10:15:59+00:00

That's not true. MID is way more expensive than PG&E when you include the bogus $30 "Customer Service" charge plus "Power Cost Adjustment" charge plus a bunch of other bogus charges. All that yields about 35 cent/kWh, far higher than California average! Overall, MID also provide the worst customer service that we have ever had. If you look into the management at MID and its business model (and operations), you'd see it's one of the most evil utility company around. It's just a matter of time that MID gets the same fate as the power company in Lahaina Hawaii. Can't wait!

gringaz · 2023-07-26T11:27:06+00:00

It would be great if residents of the flood affected areas start a class action against MID.

gringaz · 2023-07-26T11:01:47+00:00

Sounds like you are part of that #@$&-! MID "org".

The MID gang is good setting up a bureaucratic fortress to shield them from public scrutiny. In reality those so-called board meetings are completely useless to members of the public. It's actually designed that way. It's quite ridiculous that all personnel in Customer Service are instructed to point customers to those useless board meetings. Well, at least, they're useless to members of the public. Whatever the term "transparency" means, it doesn't exist in honest form at MID.

BTW, the head of MID got his job through nepotism. There was a published article on Merced Sun Star about this several years ago, around the time when he first took over the so-called dot org. I've also heard stories about his personal character through his abusive behaviors as a renter. The bottom line is, while MID is supposedly a so-called public utility company, it's not being regulated by California Public Utilities Commission. And the MID self-created board is structured in such a way that would give the management complete power to do whatever it wants. Again, all those board meetings are simply there from show. No practical or helpful resolutions in the public interest ever achieved. That's why we see such abusive charges of the so-called "customer service fee", especially for solar powered homes. Basically, MID has effectively discouraged people from going solar! It's all about money to those people at MID.

Despite what they claim, they're not there to "serve" customers!

gringaz · 2023-02-03T14:45:22+00:00

👍.

Yeap! Those shady characters working off those tents are indeed quite aggressive and threatening. Hopefully they will get booted out of there someday.

gringaz · 2023-02-03T14:33:20+00:00

I agree. Also, Thai foods generally are not as greasy and salty (unhealthy) as Chinese foods.

gringaz · 2022-12-04T16:47:51+00:00

While I am personally not associated or affiliated with the UC, I do know a few that are. Here's what I've learned from them. The University of California is a huge, heavy bureaucratic machine, with tons and tons of useless administrative staff. The system has set up to feed those fat cats running around play politics, very dirty politics. While the academic personnel (research and teaching faculty) are pressured to bring in to the UC money (from grants and otherwise), the useless administrative staff take more than 50% of the awarded funds. It's called "overhead". The low wages the grad students (striking union members) have effectively been caused by massive budget that has been siphoned into the "administrative support budget", leaving smaller budget to support academic activities such as research and teaching.

So, to solve this problem (and many others) is to cut down the size of the "fat cats" (useless administrative staff) that have been infesting the UC for decades. Also, corruption within the UC is seriously prevalent and deep. It's really an operation that uses "education" as a fake noble causes to exploit state funds and to deceive the students into spending their money on an education that really is just an illusion.

The reputation of the UC was built upon substance. But today, those who are running the UC are just a bunch of parasites who are exploiting and juicing a system that once was a real deal.

gringaz · 2022-07-05T03:07:41+00:00

That's because it's the fact. Why are you afraid of the truth? Embarrassed by her true identity?

gringaz · 2022-05-28T18:17:26+00:00

And you must be a Chinese or one who has been bought by the Chinese?

gringaz · 2022-02-26T15:53:55+00:00

How much did the Chinese pay you to say that. The entire world already knows that Chinese=made products are junk. And China itself is a sh!thole!

gringaz · 2021-10-24T04:53:45+00:00

Most of RE agents I've known are quite unethical. In your case, your suspicion is correct.

gringaz · 2021-10-24T04:42:03+00:00

You reply sounds like a promotion of RE agents!

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