Last I looked the Socialists stil had control of the Senate,the Presidency and had all the key appointed positions at all the departments of government.
In my reality -- the sky is blue and the grass green, as a reference check -- the Democrats control the Senate, Presidency and executive departments. What socialists, much less Socialists, hold any elected office in the United States (except for one guy from Vermont)?
If you really believe that Amtrak will be defunded it will take votes from both parties so each will need to share the blame.
True.
This country is in bad shape owing to many factors; reckless overspending,
Which started under a Republican President who was handed a surplus by his Democratic predecessor, and which arose when that Republican President decided to send Congress budgets that didn't include two wars. Since when do wars have their own revenue source independent of the general treasury so they can be in a separate budget? :blink:
moving our entire manufacturing base to Communist China
First, there are factories here, I've seen them.
From passing trains even, to keep this on-topic. :giggle: Second and foremost, unless you're a socialist too, you must acknowledge that it wasn't our -- the government or society as a whole -- manufacturing base to command
ipse dixit to "stay" here. It was and is owned by the companies that own the factories, whose shareholders have always included Americans and non-Americans and who have always been free to put their factories wherever they were legal.
and punitive unfair taxation.
Those rates weren't considered punitive under Reagan or Bush the Elder, or indeed any of the Republican presidents going back to Eisenhower. The Eisenhower tax rates were higher than any of the rates inherited by Bush the Lesser.
Best that we can hope for is to maintain the existing Amtrak budget and have wage freezes for all of their employees like everyone else in the private sector is getting.
Assuming for the sake of argument that the overall budget has to be frozen, what makes the highway or aviation budgets sacrosanct? <_< If the pie isn't going to get any bigger, I have no problem advocating taking some pie from the morbidly obese Federal Highways Administration and giving it to the skinny Federal Transit Administration and the emaciated Federal Railroad Administration and Amtrak. We don't need any new roads or airports, just enough to duly maintain the ones we have. We do need more transit and intercity rail.