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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I mean, Ray LaHood the former Transportation Secretary under Obama blamed it on crumbling infrastructure and of course we need more money. You know, how stupid do they think we are? This is a train going 102 miles per hour in a 50 mile zone. This is no crumbled problem. This is a speeding problem. This isn't an infrastructure problem. This is a personnel problem. But the knee jerk reflexive reaction of any Democrat of anything that happens in the country is throw more money at it. You get the riots in Baltimore, reflexive answer is throw more money at the schools. You know Baltimore has a second highest spending of any urban area in America on schools and they're a disaster. You get hurricanes and tornadoes. When's the Democratic answer? Oh, that's global warming. Climate change. You need more windmills. They have a single answer to everything. Raise your taxes, spend the money and the other thing that's really quite remarkable about this, only six years ago, not 100 years ago that the Democrats passed the largest infrastructure spending bill in the history of the galaxy. Even the Klingons never spent $380 billion on infrastructure to rebuild America. Remember the roads, the ports? The airports, the bridges. Where did that money go? But they're always at the trough again for more money for infrastructure. It shows a brain dead liberalism with no other answer to every other question.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, K-State fans could have beheaded the entire KU team at midcourt, and K-State fans would be celebrating it this morning. They are the ISIS of Big 12 fanbases.
If a guy can drive a literal train full of people into a 50mph zone at 100mph in the year 2015, that's very much an infrastructure problem.
Our infrastructure really does suck. We should have trains that go faster than 100 mph and drive themselves. Either that, or stop funding Amtrak. It's a joke in it's current state.
Quote from: Rage Against the McKee on May 15, 2015, 06:23:56 PMOur infrastructure really does suck. We should have trains that go faster than 100 mph and drive themselves. Either that, or stop funding Amtrak. It's a joke in it's current state.We don't need subsidized trains hauling people. Just holding back real innovation like vacuum tubes or mag levs.
does puni's kraut#acker thread count?
that 380 billion or whatever was laughably low, infrastructure projects cost an insane amount of money
Ksuw loves having a crumbling infrastructure, very weird
Quote from: libliblibliblibliblib on May 15, 2015, 10:36:54 PMKsuw loves having a crumbling infrastructure, very weirdThe majority of infrastructure is the responsibility of local governments, which are being bankrupted by government employee unions.
No one is saying infrastructure isn't important, or doesn't need funding. I'm all for lots of infrastructure projects, but that doesn't change the facts that billions of taxpayer dollars are poured into infrastructure every year in a very inefficient way. The White House has blamed Republicans for the train wreck. Yet that that doesn't change the fact that you've got a Congress and a Federal Government running another massive money loser, and it's been that way for years. Who is to say that if Congress and bureaucrats didn't have their fingers all over Amtrak then a speed control system may have already been installed. But for most (particularly ProgLibs) it's NEVER a management problem, and always a money problem.
Quote from: michigancat on May 15, 2015, 06:29:07 PMIf a guy can drive a literal train full of people into a 50mph zone at 100mph in the year 2015, that's very much an infrastructure problem.Wut?
Is anyone blaming a train wreck on republicans? I've only heard the usual persecution complex thing on the neocon am radio and nothing from actual people.
Quote from: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on May 16, 2015, 11:06:37 AMQuote from: michigancat on May 15, 2015, 06:29:07 PMIf a guy can drive a literal train full of people into a 50mph zone at 100mph in the year 2015, that's very much an infrastructure problem.Wut?The train should have slowed itself down.
