NE933
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Not so fast -- if we can't fund our America's Railroad, and if rail somethings get into endless threadbare vollies about the Northeast corridor vs Long Distance, why don't we simply -- go after the well tanned with bleached teeth and botox partied recreational New England mariners that have demanded, and got, Amtrak to agree to a 44 train per day limit on the Boston to NY route? Demand to open up their source of weath: their sugar daddies' wallets that have helped finance bad passenger rail policy, and use that to help pay for badly needed new bridges that will be higher above the water line and thus require less openings, along with the Superliner and Amfleet replacements? All of those who berate the NE Corridor I say this: you're on target but not completely. You're correct inthat the the NE states pay way less for their share of the Amtrak system, and we wonder why the likes of Nebraska and Kentucky and Indiana and Ohio are pissed with PRIAA of 2008's contribution formula, while the Northeastern states get selective constipation of purse and pocket. But it's not enough to let the debate end there. Senators and Reps. traverse between NY - DC, depend on the Corridor as a low cost public tit, to attend so called fund raisers at $1,000 per plate, doing so called work for the people, donned in glamour named tuxes and gowns while complaining "subsidies", and this gets brushed off like a mere insect bite. Want to get more money for both the NE Corridor and long distance overnight operations?!?? Start demanding our executive public servant leaders to honor their job duties by looking after more upkeep our America's railroad. Go after the Connecticut recreational boating associations that are allowed to shape commerce-by-rail policy with tactics of oppression by deciding on our behalf what the U.S. rail passenger needs and doesn't need, while not paying for the fix and replacing of the very old broken bridges they complain about.
Here in New York City we have knocked down a twenty eight year old supermarket in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a grocery market for the neighborhood now left with few options. And a famed destination: a thirty year old South Street seaport pier of communal gatherings, shopping, and place for free entertainment, has the same fate as the doomed supermarket: both were deliberately demolished to make way for luxury condo towers. This, just less than half mile from Ground Zero. No money for passenger rail? A new Yankee stadium replaced and built in half the time for the new World Trade Center. No money for passenger rail? Amtrak represents an archaic, outdated way of travel that the public can't afford? Horses***. Those who say those words are holding all of the real money, and are misleading you, me, and the media. Knocking down useful buildings not even three decades old, there were nothing wrong with them, to erect someone else's castle in the sky, at our expense, is the REAL reason why we have no money, because the system is rigged so that their bank exec friends at these fundraisers can get them lots of money, money that needs to go to our infrasructure. We are betraying ourselves and our next generation who will look for sturdy policies, healthy bridges that will have to carry them across rivers, and find it has all but vanished, looted out by msguided and greedy leaders who's idea of writing a letter means sending a tweet while on the toilet, and who get college degrees from a tablet while munching on donuts in bed.
We are in so much trouble, we must seize the time now to get our leaders, those who still have brains, courage, and heart, to figure out a way through this mess.
Here in New York City we have knocked down a twenty eight year old supermarket in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a grocery market for the neighborhood now left with few options. And a famed destination: a thirty year old South Street seaport pier of communal gatherings, shopping, and place for free entertainment, has the same fate as the doomed supermarket: both were deliberately demolished to make way for luxury condo towers. This, just less than half mile from Ground Zero. No money for passenger rail? A new Yankee stadium replaced and built in half the time for the new World Trade Center. No money for passenger rail? Amtrak represents an archaic, outdated way of travel that the public can't afford? Horses***. Those who say those words are holding all of the real money, and are misleading you, me, and the media. Knocking down useful buildings not even three decades old, there were nothing wrong with them, to erect someone else's castle in the sky, at our expense, is the REAL reason why we have no money, because the system is rigged so that their bank exec friends at these fundraisers can get them lots of money, money that needs to go to our infrasructure. We are betraying ourselves and our next generation who will look for sturdy policies, healthy bridges that will have to carry them across rivers, and find it has all but vanished, looted out by msguided and greedy leaders who's idea of writing a letter means sending a tweet while on the toilet, and who get college degrees from a tablet while munching on donuts in bed.
We are in so much trouble, we must seize the time now to get our leaders, those who still have brains, courage, and heart, to figure out a way through this mess.
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