Posted on 06/13/2023 3:06:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Your… that sounds serious. Lol
General election - looking for “moderate” votes, like from union members unhappy with Biden (some are, some are not).
Modern commercial aircraft (airliners) can operate safely with a single person in the cockpit.
But it would be a really, really dumb idea.
If you are going to pathologize anybody that seeks to use authority and force to impose a moral vision, then you will effectively check yourself out of history.
Either we rule, or we will be ruled. The left will never leave us alone.
“Modern commercial aircraft (airliners) can operate safely with a single person in the cockpit.
But it would be a really, really dumb idea.”
Agreed.
Just in case . . .
Railroads are making oodles of money, share the wealth with the workers.
“ Railroads are making oodles of money, share the wealth with the workers”
Yes.
Railroad accidents are very rare, and yet the Federal Railroad Administration will be tasked with enforcing this two-man crew requirement.
Meanwhile … Motor vehicle accidents occur with boring regularity, and yet the Federal Highway Administration is overseeing testing and establishing regulations for driverless trucks.
Sometimes it’s obvious that Washington DC is an insane asylum.
I have to weigh in on the side of a 2-man crew. There are so many things that can happen on and outside of a train, that there is no way a single person, even with a computer, can pay enough attention to details.
Just think of it as having “two sets of eyes and hands”.
Remember that trains used to have cabooses, both as sleep areas and to have another set of eyes on the back of the train. It is still debatable whether it was wise to discontinue their use.
It would be better if the Fed Gov didn’t subsidize the RR.
Exactly!
Let's just triple the price of food and fuel.
If the peasants can't pay, screw 'em. Just keep Fed hands off my Medicare!
What's left wing about that?
Reason is an embarrassing, corporate sellout hiding under the libertarian label.
We’ve got ridiculously long trains of God-knows-what coursing through our heartland with barely a single employee riding along.
Tariffs have long been considered left wing, and in recent times were a policy of Bush and Obama.
And I though most conservatives didn't like Pete Buttigieg?
I think the Trump admin was probably wrong and this would be a corrective. As a rule unions push for jobs over what is required and a broken Pete B. is only rarely right.
My own leaning would be to require cargo trains not to run over a mile long and to clearly mark all of their loads. But at least unless and until that is changed, yes, we probably need more than one guy to be present for emergency stops and the like.
Serving the people of the nation before aliens is not left wing - it’s just not “libertarian”.
Look, I get it. I paid LP dues for twelve years and I voted for Ed Clark in 1980.
But then I realized that the libertarian dream not only is not self-enforcing on its own terms, but I looked around at the havoc libertarian governance (such as it is) had laid waste to white working class communities from sea to shining sea, and I changed my mind.
Right-libertarianism is simply a pretty story to allow oligarchs to rape our people. Left-libertarianism (immorality) is simply top cover for drug dealers, perverts, and pedophiles.
When we get a new government, all of that has to go.
This law would not have prevented the train crash. Why don’t we pass laws that actually make people safer, instead of laws that make people less safe, lead to more spending, and more authoritarian control.
I have never been a Libertarian, but I also don’t believe big government is the solution to every problem. It only makes things less safe.
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