Posted on 06/01/2015 9:30:11 PM PDT by QT3.14
Just before Congress slunk away for the three-day weekend — which it was, of course, planning to stretch into a week — senators from the Northeast held a press conference to denounce Republicans for underfunding Amtrak passenger rail service.
“Amtrak has some infrastructure that is so old it was built and put into service when Jesse James and Butch Cassidy were still alive and robbing trains,” said Senator Charles Schumer of New York.
“In Connecticut we have a bridge that was built when Grover Cleveland was president,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
Now you have to admit, this is pretty compelling. Especially if you merge them together and envision Butch Cassidy and Grover Cleveland robbing commuters on the Acela Express.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Why hasnt the left leaders of the states done something? Why is it fedgovs responsibility? Why didnt clinton do something? Why hasnt obama done something? Cant they just solve a problem instead of doing nothing and blaming their political enemies?
Yes I know the answer.
Willie Green Memorial Ping.
Yeah, ain’t that funny. Schumer’s so scared of riding Amtrak, besides, that he flies out of LaGuardia Airport (and doesn’t miss the opportunity to badmouth flight attendants).
Of course, the big open wound here is the question with regards to Nixon: Why, instead of creating Amtrak in 1971 and thus cutting the then-extant intercity rail system in half, didn’t he deregulate the railroads and call for the removal of punitive infrastructure taxes?
Guess they shouldn’t have spent the Stimulus on bailing out unions, expanding welfare programs and building green companies that were about to go belly up.
Okay—let’s make plans to replace that bridge in Connecticut.
How long before the environmentalists file their first lawsuit?
How long before they file their fifteenth?
QFT -- I can envision lib heads exploding just from reading that one sentence, thus I had to quote it in the hopes of making that a reality.
They did. Remember all that "stimulus" for "shovel ready" work?How'd that work out???
Absolutely. It is yours.
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