“IF ONLY ANOTHER $1.31 BILLION HAD BEEN APPROPRIATED …”
At least seven people are dead in Pennsylvania – and dozens more injured – after an Amtrak passenger train carrying 238 passengers and five crew members derailed in Philadelphia on Tuesday night.
Let’s stop for a moment before going any further and acknowledge that, shall we?
Before all the bodies had been pulled out of the wreckage, though, fiscal liberals in the U.S. Congress were already blaming the tragedy on government underfunding of the chronically cash-strapped train system.
They also used the crash as an excuse to try and add $1.31 billion to the $1.14 billion Amtrak is getting in a transportation appropriations bill – and then bitched, moaned and played partisan politics when the effort was defeated.
“It is deeply troubling that my Republican colleagues defeated an amendment to fully fund Amtrak just hours after his tragic rail crash,” liberal U.S. representative Nita Lowey of New York said.
Really?
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5 comments:
Considering the train was going over 100MPH at the time of the accident - I would say the accident was caused by negligence or stupidity....not underfunding!
Gotta love the entertainment value of them trying though!
Just pointing out facts; the GOP has been ignoring infrastructure for far too long. Now they have blood on their hands.
10:52 - newsflash - GOP hasn't always been in charge...how about the years when Nancy Peloser and Harry Read-My-Lips "NO" were in charge...how about when slick willy and peanut-man decimated our military....they all have blood on their hands - you need a brain in your head!
An engineer running a passenger train at over 100 MPH (especially in the area it was in) has nothing to do with budget cuts.
There's not a tax they don't like.
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