Posted on 05/13/2015 5:08:22 PM PDT by jazusamo
“Hrs ago, Republicans chose 2 cut Some of The meager Funds, 4 AMTRAK!!” Cher tweeted.
“They did this EVEN AFTER the Train Crash & loss of Life, last nite!!” she said.
“Majority of GOP congressmen & senators don’t give a flying Fk about the wellbeing of Americans,” Cher said in a separate tweet. “They defund Everything PPL DESPERATELY NEED.”
Cher’s remarks followed Northeast Regional Train 188’s derailment in Philadelphia late Tuesday.
The House hit Amtrak with reductions Wednesday as part of a $55 billon funding bill for the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development.
The GOP-sponsored measure shrinks Amtrak’s available cash to $1.13 billion, down from roughly $1.4 billion Congress appropriated in 2015.
Democrats argued Wednesday the maneuver exposed Republican insensitivity towards Tuesday night’s accident.
“Last night, we failed them,” Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) said of Train 188’s victims.
“We failed to invest in their safety,” he said. “We failed to make their safety our priority.”
“It defies the interests of the American people,” he added.
Republicans countered that Democrats were politicizing a tragedy without fully understanding its cause.
“I was disappointed to hear my colleague talk about the funding for Amtrak and to suggest that because we haven’t funded it, that’s what caused the accident, when you have no idea what caused the accident,” said Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) of Israel’s remarks.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators announced Wednesday that Train 188’s engineer had tried using its emergency brakes.
That measure failed, the agency argued, given the train was traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour.
The Federal Railroad Administration lists the speed limit for the section of track where the crash occurred as 50 miles per hour.
Tuesday’s derailment killed seven passengers and wounded at least 140 more.
It’s her way of still denigrating Sonny.
Imagine the mess when a high-tech train traveling at Mach 0.9 crashes.
LOL! That’s funny, I’d bet Cher has never even heard of Mensa.
Wait, Chet is not dead?
Tied - to the whippin' post! Tied - to the whippin' post!
I wish I could take credit for that one. LOL.
Cher is now an infrastructure expert LOL
Cher Cher Cher, stick to what you know..making your daughter want a penis..just stick to leaving your kids with pedophiles so they can “learn” what true love is
Cher, listen, this may sound tough but just try to listen OK..this engineer, who by the way was a gay activist and former Target employee..was traveling at ONE HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR in a FIFTY MILE AN HOUR CURVE..exactly how does giving Amtrak more money help remedy that problem??
No I think the problem is that liberals allowed the gay mafia to take over a major transportation company which resulted in a queer with virtually no seniority or experience becoming an engineer solely because he was gay in 4 short years.
This is another 17th Amendment (17A)-related issue. More on this shortly.
The bottom line is that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate infrastructure purposes. This is evidenced by the following excerpts.
Veto of federal public works bill (With the exception of postal roads (1.8.7), President Madison had explained that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate infrastructure purposes.)
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The Founding States had established the federal Senate partly so that senators would protect their states by killing House appropriations bills that Congress could not justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, the power to tax and spend for intrastate infrastructure purposes not one of those powers.
So whereas the states might normally have the revenues to properly maintain intrastate infrastructure, as a consequence of 17A they actually don’t have the revenues to do so. This is because corrupt senators are helping the corrupt House to steal state revenues by means of unaccountable, vote-winning, unconstitutional federal taxes.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear and a bunch of corrupt senators along with it.
Oh wow is that Marilyn Manson?
I read that Cher has dementia which has actually raised her IQ to 50!
I thought she was dead.
No. She married up a Cherokee.
She is the hairpin that left such an impression on her daughter, it turned he!
She’s as good at motherhood as she is at critical thinking.
Cher-head.
Yeah and about that tree your former hubby hit, was the GOP to blame for that as well? Did the GOP cut funding to remove rogue trees?
Liberalism is a mental disease.
Charo not Cher
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