Posted on 10/21/2021 9:18:52 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
President Joe Biden revisited his love of trains during a trip to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, promising to get millions of vehicles off the roads.
“We will take literally millions of automobiles off the road,” Biden boasted, arguing that more high-speed trains like the ones constructed in China would make trains more attractive.
If more people took trains, Biden argued, it would save millions of barrels of oil and reduce pollution.
“This is not hyperbole; this is a fact,” he insisted. “These are facts.”
Biden boasted $66 billion in government spending to subsidize trains in his infrastructure bill.
“I got more money for passenger rail than the entire Amtrak system cost to begin with,” he said. “We’re going to change the nation in a big way.”
Amtrak continues to enjoy heavy subsidies from Congress even though it has famously lost money for 50 years. Since 1971, Amtrak has cost taxpayers more than $100 billion.
But Biden’s proposed plan sparked Amtrak to share a dream list of even more connected cities across the country by 2035.
In Scranton, Biden spoke at length about his long history of riding Amtrak, boasting he rode the train more than two million miles while he was senator and vice president.
“You should name half the line after me,” Biden said. “I am the most railroad guy you’re ever going to meet.”
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That money will never be used for a train system...never.
has Biden ever tried to take a train west of the Rockies?
Like people will take a bullet train to the local market.
Yep, the same week people watched and filmed a woman be raped on a train by an illegal alien and didn’t do anything but watch and record.
End you’re d@mn mask mandates for the vaccinated and some of us would seriously consider (and even LOVE) taking the train.
Good luck carrying your tool kit.
Being ABLE to FREELY DRIVE, WHEREVER YOU WANT, WHENEVER YOU WANT has been foundational to the greatness of this country.
This is just another encroachment on our liberty!
The auto industry is never coming back.
No kidding, there isn't a railroad track within 200 miles of my home.
I get a little worried when this administration starts talking about putting people on trains.
I seem to recall another regime that thought it was a good idea to put people on trains. To places like Auschwitz and Treblinka.
Trains? Isn’t that going backwards and not forward?
I’ve heard about trains in places like NYC.
Not the safest place to be in a confined space with no way out. The trains in my area BART, are often overcrowded and pretty dirty. No. I will sell my ticket to the Rickety Rat Maze to somebody on Ebay. I will stay in my privately owned car.
Being ABLE to FREELY DRIVE, WHEREVER YOU WANT, WHENEVER YOU WANT drives liberals crazy. They want you to have to get permission from an authority.
Has Biden ever tried to take a train west of the Allegheny’s? 90% of his railroad experience is on the Boston to Washington corridor.
Agenda 21.
Yep....all of FJB’s trains, will be heading one direction...into the cities.
On the train I can relax, read, study, browse the web, etc.
All things I cannot, in my car.
It’s much prefer the train - if it went where I wanted to go. Which it doesn’t, and never will.
Constraining my life to go only where urban owners think I should want to go simply isn’t something I’m willing to do.
Count on Democrats to always have communist China’s best interests at heart while taking a giant dump on Americans. They also say that the Devil can quote scripture better than anyone and leftists prove that over and over again. I saw an article on a new one, “Nancy Pelosi Invokes the Gospel: “Christ Said, ‘Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me.’””, and you can give that a look at CNSnews. And little children will suffer unto the Democrats, as they are the chief abortionists amongst us. They also hate old people and whites. Oh and planes and cars, unless they need to go somewhere.
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