Democrats.........Born stupid

The cry and call from the Liberal Left, from POTUS on down, is, "lack of funding caused that terrible AMTRAC crash".

Can these people get any more stupid.

THE GOD DAMNED TRAIN WAS GOING 104 MPH ON A 50 MPH CURVE.

In fact, the funding had already been allocated to install new anti speeding apparatus on this section of track, but a problem with a FCC frequency clearance was holding things up.

Democrats.......ignore facts. Open mouth. Insert foot. Confirm your a moron.

Confirm your a moron. Originally Posted by Jackie S

I can confirm. You're a moron.

The cry and call from the Liberal Left, from POTUS on down, is, "lack of funding caused that terrible AMTRAC crash".

Can these people get any more stupid.

THE GOD DAMNED TRAIN WAS GOING 104 MPH ON A 50 MPH CURVE.

In fact, the funding had already been allocated to install new anti speeding apparatus on this section of track, but a problem with a FCC frequency clearance was holding things up.

Democrats.......ignore facts. Open mouth. Insert foot. Confirm your a moron. Originally Posted by Jackie S

And CONGRESS told AMTRAK to put the train control systems in way back in 1980. And then again in 2008 Congress told AMTRAK to put in the system by 2015 and FUNDED IT. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/us...stem.html?_r=0

Whoops. Anyone know why the $834 Billion in stimulus funds in 2009 weren't spent on this by the Dems?

And CONGRESS told AMTRAK to put the train control systems in way back in 1980. And then again in 2008 Congress told AMTRAK to put in the system by 2015 and FUNDED IT. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/us...stem.html?_r=0

Whoops. Anyone know why the $834 Billion in stimulus funds in 2009 weren't spent on this by the Dems? Originally Posted by RedLeg505

It's not even fun, when someone is this dumb. It wasn't even $834, for starters. It was $819. Why wasn't it spent on that? Because it was allocated for other things. LOTS of other things.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...20100154.html/

The cry and call from the Liberal Left, from POTUS on down, is, "lack of funding caused that terrible AMTRAC crash".

Can these people get any more stupid.

THE GOD DAMNED TRAIN WAS GOING 104 MPH ON A 50 MPH CURVE.

In fact, the funding had already been allocated to install new anti speeding apparatus on this section of track, but a problem with a FCC frequency clearance was holding things up.

Democrats.......ignore facts. Open mouth. Insert foot. Confirm your a moron. Originally Posted by Jackie S

It's hue and cry. They're saying 106mph now. It's only natural to want to point at something and find blame after something like this happens. It's not stupid. It's human nature. The truth is that Amtrak is under-funded. Did that contribute to this tragedy? Probably not. If the positive train control system had been installed, this could have likely been avoided, is what they're saying. Let's wait and see what happened. The speed before the corner is routinely at 70-80, perhaps something failed. We don't know yet.

It's hue and cry. They're saying 106mph now. It's only natural to want to point at something and find blame after something like this happens. It's not stupid. It's human nature. The truth is that Amtrak is under-funded. Did that contribute to this tragedy? Probably not. If the positive train control system had been installed, this could have likely been avoided, is what they're saying. Let's wait and see what happened. The speed before the corner is routinely at 70-80, perhaps something failed. We don't know yet. Originally Posted by WombRaider

Why even bother with subsidized passenger train traffic? Buses and planes are cheaper. Rail makes sense only for heavy industrial traffic - ask Warren Buffet.

Why even bother with subsidized passenger train traffic? Buses and planes are cheaper. Rail makes sense only for heavy industrial traffic - ask Warren Buffet. Originally Posted by DSK

Apparently it sped up as it went into the curve. Could be a malfunction of some sort. They'll figure it out.

http://news.yahoo.com/amtrak-train-d...--finance.html

Go look at a map of how many planes are in the air at any given time and get back to me.

Why even bother with subsidized passenger train traffic? Buses and planes are cheaper. Rail makes sense only for heavy industrial traffic - ask Warren Buffet. Originally Posted by DSK

New York pretty much runs on the subway system. Take it out and the entire city will grind to a halt.
Same goes for almost all of our major urbanized areas.

There are safety measures that can eliminate this type of accident. It will be harder to implement with the cut in funding. However, WTF there were only eight people killed why worry.

It's only natural to want to point at Republicans and hold them to blame after something like this happens. It's not stupid. It's what Democrats do. Originally Posted by WombRaider

It's hard for me to think of anything more contemptible than seeking to exploit a tragedy like this for political advantage even before the bodies are counted and recovered. Evidently Democrats lack a very basic human quality - the same quality undercunt likes to lecture everyone else in this forum about not having.

You lack a very basic human quality; empathy. Originally Posted by WombRaider

Democrats have no EMPATHY for the victims.

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Whoops. Anyone know why the $834 Billion in stimulus funds in 2009 weren't spent on this by the Dems? Originally Posted by RedLeg505

"Shovel ready was not as shovel ready as we expected...."

It's not even fun, when someone is this dumb. It wasn't even $834, for starters. It was $819. Why wasn't it spent on that? Because it was allocated for other things. LOTS of other things.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...20100154.html/ Originally Posted by WombRaider

That's it?THAT is your defense of Obama's failure to fix AMTRAK? $15 Billion? Was that the problem? If he'd gotten another $15 BILLION, he'd have had enough to allocate to ALL the other things (called HIGHER PRIORITIES) and still fix AMTRAK?

SO.. this is you admitting Obama didn't think the AMTRAK infrastructure was important enough to fix when he had the stimulus funds?

You are right.. this isn't fun debating with someone as dumb as you are.

http://www.propublica.org/special/th...st-of-spending

819 BILLION.. and how much did Obama send to the Department of Transportation?

98 BILLION.. and out of 98 BILLION.. he couldn't find a few dollars to fix AMTRAK? And now he wants to blame the Republicans for not spending enough to fix AMTRAK.

TFF.

It will be harder to implement with the cut in funding. Originally Posted by i'va biggen

SO.. Obama's Transportation Department couldn't find enough funding for the PTC system out of the 98 BILLION cut to them from the 2009 Stimulus? Think of how many Americans could have been employed installing the equipment along the tracks.

SO.. Obama's Transportation Department couldn't find enough funding for the PTC system out of the 98 BILLION cut to them from the 2009 Stimulus? Think of how many Americans could have been employed installing the equipment along the tracks. Originally Posted by RedLeg505

Naaahh... using undercunt's methodology (on full display in his ignorant posts on the Keystone XL pipeline), construction jobs don't count for shit. He only counts jobs needed to operate the new equipment once it's installed. So... maybe 5-10 jobs?


Btw, nice link on how the stimulus money was misspent... Any idea down what rabbit hole this $8 billion disappeared?

High speed rail capital assistance $8,000,000,000

It's hard for me to think of anything more contemptible than seeking to exploit a tragedy like this for political advantage even before the bodies are counted and recovered. Evidently Democrats lack a very basic human quality - the same quality undercunt likes to lecture everyone else in this forum about not having.



Democrats have no EMPATHY for the victims.

. Originally Posted by lustylad

You had to CHANGE what I said in order to make your point. That means you didn't make an effective point. In my post, which you changed, I never used the word 'republican' or 'democrat'. YOU used the tragedy to point out some perceived slight on your own behalf, jackass. How goddamn sad is THAT. You're exactly what you call out. Congratulations.