Posted on 05/13/2015 10:42:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Yes.
The latest is that Baltimore needs more funding for “job training” - “job traning” is always a favorite boondoggle of the left.
Of course, then once you have trained all these people, you need to “invest”....
All concrete ties in that immediate section - all four tracks.
The stabilization of Iraq was not a waste.
The installation of Obama was.
We can’t run our foreign policy based on the outside chance we may have an Islamic mole become president.
Allowing a guy like Hussein to continue to threaten war and voice support for terrorism.
Just because Bush was too stupid to get the nation of Iraq to reimburse us, doesn’t mean the whole policy was wrong.
Apparently so. If another trillion dollars had been spent, the train would not have been going 100 mph.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
No need to rehash the previous failures in Iraq and the ME in general. We simply disagree.
Yes, that’s what “they” said. But only a very tiny percentage of it actually was - most of it was simply used to increase the baseline of existing social welfare programs. If the full amount had actually been spent on infrastructure upgrades, there might have possibly been an outside change that there would have been a positive return on investment vs. just more debt and interest on the debt - a net negative that will be weighing down the economy for generations.
Right - absolutely no logic in that statement whatsoever.
Gladly...
Bottom line this is a problem of liberalism:
1) Infrastructure funds have been diverted to social programs for years.
2) The legal environment and laws and big government and red tape have not incentivised the private companies CSX et al from putting any money into tracks used by the government/amtrak
The government should not be in the transportation business, which is why the injured have a small cap on what they can recover.
It’s a big government mess.
Oh yeah!
How could I have gotten that mixed up?
(sigh. fondly remembering the old trolls...)
Driver on his selfie cell phone.....
"Hey Bubba....check this out ...cruising the curves at 100mph"
There. I fixed it.
Rex Nutting...ought to be tried and bound
Hi DD,
You are basically correct, but, IIRC, the “mainline” between DC and NYC is the property of AMTRACK.
Is AMTRAK a “private corporation”?
Not in the same sense as BNSF or KCS or NS.
Indeed, speed was the main cause of the accident. They are now going to use this accident to try to throw more money into a failed, government-run entity.
Privatize and it will survive...or sink. As it should. Nothing good EVER comes from government mismanagement!
IMHO....
yeah ... OR ....the high cost of ignoring speed limits. (should be the title)
This is just like that train wreck in Spain a few years ago, just going too damned fast around a turn. So sad, those lives lost - forget for now the enormous $ cost - because someone couldn’t heed a speed limit.
I will be taking Amtrak tomorrow (South of DC) but was at DC’s Union Station today, and all the bus lines were unusually long due to the train wreck/cancellations.
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