Posted on 06/07/2015 5:43:05 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
While debating proposed cuts to Amtrak’s budget, Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) argued that the government subsidized train system is necessary, especially during disasters.
“What is it - that we don’t 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 couldn’t 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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Facts mean nothing, all they have to do is resurrect the word “Katrina” tie it in with a bunch of mumbo-jumbo and instant memories of racism and black lives don’t matter. I foresee a huge uptick in memories of Katrina between now and 11-16.
They had hundreds of public school buses that were just left in parking lots to get submerged.
This is a straw man/deflection tactic.
Major Owens, if memory serves.
Well thank you. The found a conservative black woman to run against Corrine this past election but she lost. Until the DEMOGRAPHICS change which is unlikely we are stuck with ms Brown.
Cest la vie!
maybe the Georgia reps could take over for our Florida GOP and re draw the district a SECOND TIME..lol
fREEGARDS
lex
My upscale neighborhood is in Kathy Castor’s district. Around me are 3 districts with Tea Party Republicans in them. I feel your pain..
this tirade against sanity...coud have emanated form the “brain” of Lous-It’s Whtey’s Fault-Farraklown.
....”MILLIONS died all During Katrina”
read about it at www.FinalCall-for-Alcohol.com
Thank you, I was hoping somebody would post that.
CC
From the soundtack.....who said...”Dont BE stuck on Stupid”?
thats right it was NOT Ray Chocolate City Nagin....
representative Brown....is so high he CAINT come down~~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgbBP9Em00A
Corrine Brown, Go Gata
Sheila Jackson Lee is in head to head competition with her for the most idiotic congresswoman and usually loses.
Corrine Brown is a lying sack of excrement.
Katrina hit on Sunday. That SATURDAY, AMTRAK canceled all service to and from New Orleans, just as Greyhound, too, at exactly twelve noon, the same time, that stinking Chocolate City Mayor Ray Nagin was on the TV telling people to leave the city, which stranded me, because I did not a car, nor had friends who did, either!
Meanwhile, “The cash is in the freezer” Congressman Jefferson, now a fed convict, was having the Louisina State National Guard move his stiff from his home.
Corrine Brown is another outstanding member of The Democratic Socialists of America.
That would be against union rules!
Things like that didn’t happen before global warming, did they?
Obama took 6 TRILLION dollars to give us “shovel ready” public works projects, most of which usually being Transportation
ask O where he’s hiding our 6 TRILLION dollars and if you can find it, you can spend it on transportation projects
another Katrina lie ping
Uh, there was public transportation in New Orleans. It went unused as the locals took the opportunity to raid the stores for free stuff.
BINGO!
I say this as a bonafide resident of the Mississippi Coast where the hurricane really hit. 75 miles east of NO
Exactly...the busses were there, the intelligence and competence of leaders to get a process in place to use them to evacuate people was totally lacking.....
Enough time to move his family. Several days notice.
Here is a relatively simple math question for the proponents of rail travel in the 21st century:
A maglev express train leaves new orleans at 7:55am on a Monday morningbound for Miami. At 192mph and $99 for a ticket, how many tickets each week will it take for the train to be a financially viable route, and why does anyone pay for a ticket to board that train?
Bonus: change any variable or set of variables you want in an attempt to make this project appear profitable.
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