Amtrak Disaster: Republican Plan To Cut Rail Funding On Hold After Derailment

It would be a great time to talk about cutting funding 100% and privatizing Amtrak. It is just a perennially subsidized rat hole to prop up union workers and pensions. Costs more and more every year, prices go up services go down. Now they have some drug-addled, mentally ill fag with barely any experience racing around corners at 1000mph killing a bunch of people. Another excellent example of government / libtard fail that should be exploited by Republicans,instead of the cowardly shits running away from it. The Dems will simply use the disaster to milk EVEN MORE money out of the taxpayer. They will have no problem at all exploiting this tragedy.

More like union douche that fell asleep at the wheel for the 30th time. Won't get fired this time either...

No one was asleep at the wheel, and no one was speeding either....both are dis-info I believe.

Is Amtrak private?

Funding for what ? Getting a LBGT gay activist train engineer to slow down before a curve ? Apparently the guys a militant fruit.

turn the lights on and the rats run

they have to wait for the room to go dark again

they'll just do some more of their work on pbs and the usps in the meantime

what's this all about?

Trains are not something to be hated. They are a part of the normal infrastructure in first world economies.

Investing in rail lines, and modern passenger cars, helps the economy because it helps commerce. It also helps people.

What we are doing is wasting trillions upon trillions in the foreign wars that does nothing but stifle the economy and it does not help people, it hurts people.

But of course we have unlimited money for war, but no money for a modern train system.

Do the freeways make a profit? It's public transportation! Invest in it. It is like clean water, it is a basic need of the people...

America is becoming an embarrassing place to call home.

Want to know something funny.
We don't need roads or rails anymore.

Amtrak COULD be run efficiently in private hands. It was taken over by the gov't. and subsidized in the mid 70's. The people responsible at the time actually admitted that it was only saved to prop up union rail workers, not to transport passengers. It shouldn't cost over $2 billion / year to run a small railroad line. Most of that budget goes to union pensions, political cronies and graft.

I find it extremely coincidental that this accident occurred only 1 week before proposed funding cuts were to be discussed. I knew it was "Over The Top" when the liberal talking heads on MSM were talking about infrastructure spending on the SAME DAY of the accident. Some didn't even have the respect to offer their condolences for the families of the victims. The friggen bodies weren't even cold yet and they are going on and on about more money like the typical cackling liberal whores that they are.

Amtrak already gets a billion taxpayer dollars a year (for nothing)...They also got an extra billion from the obama shovel ready jobs stimulas.

How exactly is more money going to solve this problem?

The engineers and administrators at Amtrak have wanted to straighten and change that curve for quite some time because it is obviously not that safe.

If you straighten the curve for a few million you solved that problem. That's like the cost of three or five good bombs they dropped today in Iraq for God know's why?

Is it just me, or isn't that obvious?

What happened to "too big to fail?" Amtrak is the Only national passenger line in the entire country. Oh wait, it's not a bank!
America can be a lesson in hyprocracy sometimes

We need to STOP subsidizing ALL transit!!

Trains!!
Planes!!
Highways!!

Only the rich travel ... and they can afford to pay the full price for their travels and take the burden off of the Taxpayers. The Taxpayers should NOT be subsidizing the rich, and besides the private sector can be more efficient at it.

In addition to the Railroads ...

ALL ROADS SHOULD BE TOLL ROADS!! including the local roads in all towns and cities. With modern technology it is easy to charge people for traveling on them by putting sensors every block in the cities, every mile in the country, and at every bridge or culvert in the city or country (ala what PrePass does now in selected areas). Everybody pays for each and every trip taken, including to the grocery store, and the money goes to whoever owns, builds and/or maintains the roads and bridges.

All roads, even local roads also SHOULD BE SOLD OFF to private owners and Governments at ALL levels should be banned from owning or maintaining any road, highway, bridge, or culvert.

Ditto with Airports and the Air Traffic Control System.

ALL airports should be required to be sold off and all governments at all levels banned from owning or financing ANY airport. Private Industry would make a financial decision as to whether to keep any particular airport open, and if there is enough demand for landings to pay the costs then it will stay open. If not then is SHOULD CLOSE and the land sold off for development.

The Air Traffic Control System should be a "USER PAYS" system on a per flight basis. It takes the same amount of resources to guide a small private jet as a big commercial airliner ... so the prices for both of those should BE THE SAME. The average traveler who flies via the airlines should NOT be paying extra so that some corporation can get an almost freebie for it's Corporate Jet (or a Doctor for his Beechcraft Bonanza).

Waterways should also have user fees. If you want to use your powerboat on a lake ... NO FREEBIES anymore. Pay the private owner of the lake, or in the case of rivers or the great lakes, the concessionair for that part of the waterway, for the right to travel through it or on it.

It is time to privatize all these "extras" that basically are subsidies for the rich and make those people PAY for their use of the resources.

Right - you have to take the train hater's argument to the logical conclusion that their argument leads to. Every road should be privatized, then. Winner take all. Everybody just gets screwed trying to get from point A to Point B just to go to work.

This idea of hating trains has been advanced in the last 15 years by the Republican party. I have no idea what in the fuck they are talking about anymore.

Yet, Democrats support Obamacare forced insurance and can kiss my ass. They all suck.

I am not voting for either one, anymore. Independent, Libertarian, get my vote no matter who.

Democrat and Republican politicians can go such an egg. Because they all suck.

SUCK!!!

They should just make all the rail lines straight then.

If America spent just a fraction of its foreign war budget on its rail infrastructure it could have a rail system that would surpass France, China or Japan.

China was stuck in the Steam age two decades ago and look at them now.




But no America prefers to spend its budget on War machines and War Trains instead and let its passenger rail system crumble into the ground.




There was more oil train crashes in the United States in the last two years than there was in the last two decades.