Featured House Committee Votes To Cut Funding For Amtrak

To the contrary, interstate highways are used by every citizen in the country and maintained by the states. Amtrak is used by almost none in comparison.

Shut it down!

 

Crabby is mad again.

 

Crabby, if we made all roads toll roads you would then complain that only the rich could travel and we were limiting the poor's ability to work outside their zip code. You'd complain that we limited the poor to lower quality healthcare only available in their zip code.

 

Yep. That last one of his was one of the dumbest in a while.

Can't see the difference between highways that serve a legitimate public service for everyone and a railroad that serves only a political purpose for just a very few.

 

He can, he is not really that stupid, he just refuses to acknowledge it. It does give a picture of his inability to see. Dishonesty does that.

 

Only an idiot would disagree with this.

 

Roads don't turn a profit ?

That is the dumbest thing I will hear all day.

 

Besides the interstate highway system is paid for and maintained by the people who use it, through fuel taxes. Amtak is paid for and maintained by everyone for the benefit of very few.

Shut it down.

 

The OP was one of the most repugnant examples of trying to use human tragedy for political gain that I ever hope to see. And later on we read this gem from the same source:

"The founder is wrong."

Stated in reference to the man credited with getting Amtrak running in the 1970s, who criticized the current system for following the political clout rather than the market needs. Well, he's undoubtedly a rich white man, and thus HAS to be wrong, right? And (hyperbole alert!) CTB knows more about Amtrak and railroads in general than this guy ever did or ever will, and thus can make such a stark comment without offering any supportive evidence.


We all know the GOP does not care about the living, other than the super rich.

Reminds me of a comment made by a newspaper columnist back during the Lincoln Administration:
"It ain't so much people being ignorant; it's them knowing things that ain't so."

 

Maybe if we quit giving him something to drink he will quit wetting the bed and go away......

 

Obama could have mandated this with an executive order, but he did not. Another example of the Democratic Party's hatred of working-class commuters.

 

I didn't say you had to watch Hannity or any of the others. The same talking points get passed around by the same "political conservatives" on here, on tv,on the radio, in church, in neighborhoods,, and throughout the internet.

You're repeating points you've heard somebody else say. And I know because I've heard them say the same thing.

So stop trying to act like the GOP doesn't have talking points just as the Dems do. :laugh:

 

How come Obama and the dems didn't fix it when they got the 800 billion dollars for "shovel ready" projects?

Oh... that's right - they used it to buy union member votes instead.

The stimulus money laundering scam.

So of course we should definitely give them more money.

 

I think that's a great idea!!!!! Especially since the feds have hardly paid anything in many years, except for distributing the fuel tax back to the states.

Now, back on topic. Shut down amtrak! Cut off all funding. The sooner the better.

 

I came to these conclusions on my own without anyone's help. I am not repeating what I have heard no matter what you may think. :thumbsup:

 

See he does not have any comments from his own thoughts. He just says the opposite of what someone has said to him. Not worth a response.

 

Barking up the wrong tree, Crabtownboy. I don't support our roads being maintained by the feds. It comes with too many strings attached. Sorry, wrong argument.