Posted on 06/07/2015 5:43:05 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
While debating proposed cuts to Amtraks budget, Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) argued that the government subsidized train system is necessary, especially during disasters.
What is it - that we dont support transportation infrastructure? Brown said on the House floor Thursday. When we had 9/11 Amtrak was the only entity that was moving people. When we had Katrina Amtrak. We had over 3,000 people to die because they couldnt move around the area.
According to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 1,833 people died in relation to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Amtrak had stopped service to New Orleans prior to Katrina reaching the area.
We need a train that leaves New Orleans to go to Orlando and on down to Miami that is the future, Brown continued.
Amtrak offered passenger service on The Sunset Limited line from New Orleans to Orlando until 2005, when Katrina damaged the rail lines. The tracks have since been repaired but service to Orlando has not been restored.
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Thanks for your post. I seem to recall a story of a teenager who was hailed as a hero for driving a school bus full of folks from New Orleans, to Houston, at that time.
Give black liberal Democrat (redundant) a microphone and see real stupidity in spades.
Because we're too busy building bridges, roads, and schools in other countries for people that hate us.
“”Trains are pre-1950s technology.””
True.
They are also pre 1850s technology.
I was going to say I was in before that picture, but I wasn’t fast enough.
Every time I hear a hurricane is on it’s way, what I really want to do is get on a train headed to Miami. /snort
According to the mayor, New Orleans was a “chocolate city.” So don’t blame whitey.
Somebody needs to make these clowns understand.
Just because someone hands you a microphone doesn’t mean you’re in the stupid bee finals.
1,833 deaths directly or indirectly.
Discount any and all things said by this loon.
Are school buses considered a public form of transportation in an emergency?
Even compared to other Congress-critters, Corrine doesn't have so much as a nodding acquaintance with clear thinking. She makes Hank Johnson (Guam tipping over) look like a bleeding genius and Debbie Washerwoman Schlitz look like Miss America.
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However the mayor did take advantage of the week long warning to move his family out of New Orleans into an up scale condo in Dallas.
Damn Corrine, doubling down on STUPID are ya?
Oh gawd, we bought a beautiful mobile home when i retired from ministry...there were conservative congress crittes all around Jacksonville..but we ended up in a tiny sliver of land that runs from Jacksonville to inner city Orlando and it is corrine browns district...they re drew the district and we are still in it...its like living in a bad dream over and over...please pray for us FREEPERS!
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LEX
“What do you call building a coastal city below sea level? Not so smart.”
New Orleans was built below sea level prior to American Revolution.
Had New Orleans not been built where it is, there is no telling who would have ultimately controlled everything west of the Mississippi.
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