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Troxler: Smelly rail deal all about helping CSX
Howard Troxler: Here is the question of the hour, the week, the month and maybe the year in Tallahassee:
Why are our governor and the bosses of our Legislature suddenly all hot and insistent that what Florida needs most is ... commuter rail? Why are we suddenly willing to spend something like $1.2 billion of your money, my money, state money, local money, federal money?
Why are they suddenly crying that we absolutely must say yes, so we can chase billions more in President Barack Obama's "stimulus" money that they previously despised? Why are they promising the magical creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs (if that promise has not been exaggerated into millions by now) through massive spending?
Why have they called the Florida Legislature into an extraordinary session on short notice, demanding that this deal be passed right now?
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