Positive Train Control would have prevented "human error" on Amtrak

[zebonaut]

Paul Ryan tries to weasal out of blame for lack of Amtrak funding

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Lack of Infrastructure. A republican crash.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. The image on the left of the screen is a bigger disaster.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. True, but most people won't think in terms of the number of people

who have died years or even decades earlier thanks to Republican legislators and their various votes, and will think you're being flip because they'll focus on the immediate deaths and injuries of the Amtrak crash.

[daleanime]

3. +1

[turbinetree]

4. This Ayn Rand.........

acolyte and his family took our collective tax dollars to make his family RICH, to build roads from which we the people could drive on to produce a common thing called commerce.

Now, he (Ryan) turns around just like all of the republicans in office and say the government commons that We the People have funded, like roads, FAA, sewer and water, ect....... should be privatized----------really-----------why?

I don't want my infrastructure to be privatized, because then I will not be able to get to work, the hospital, grocery store, ect............

So everyone has to pay some corporatist entity the money for greed.

They have only one concern to make a profit, to show the Wall Street crowd, stock holders that they can get there dividends and to pay there CEO's and other cronies.
In the process they don't take that money and put it back into the INFRASTRUCURE-----------because, WE the PEOPLE (the government programs) is not set up to make a PROFIT, because we take or ask to take that money to provide a service to rebuild the infrastructure.

Now, if anyone wants to know how and what you can do to privatize a rail system, look at Richard Branson, and what they did to rail system in England.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/10/truth-richard-branson-virgin-rail-profits

Now we have this right wing twit (Ryan is trying to deflect the accident because of his failure to take out tax dollars to bring the railroad up to the 21st century standards) where-by there is a train engineer that could possible be charged with crime, because he was tasked to operate a train that has been gutted in its funding and has been on a track system that was created in 1970.

He (Ryan) and his cronies are doing this as well to the State Department, its not getting the funding to protect out embassies-----------think Benghazi. Then they have hearings costing us over 23 million and we get to have a white paper being released in 2016-----------that says nothing, unless they can gin-up something else-------------you just can't make this stuff up.

To have a modern railroad industry to lets say, Japan-------Magnetic train traveling 374 miles per hour, China--------188+ miles per hour, French, Germany, the list goes on and on.
These countries take their tax dollars (from the citizens and business) to have it applied to infrastructure costs, to produce commerce for the businesses, jobs for there citizenry.

But not here, for WE the PEOPLE-----we get the have the Fountain Head Revisited, or Atlas Shrugged mentality.

As far as I am concerned he, Ryan, and his cronies have blood on there hands.
They voted to cut funding and they are trying at the expense of a disaster to bring forth a model like Richard Branson, is outrageous .
They (republicans) blame Amtrak, when We the People should be looking at jerks like him as being the problem

[YOHABLO]

5. Wouldn't you just love to throw water or a pie in his face?