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2024-02-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Buttigieg: Rail Accidents Have Increased over Past Year Despite Us Doing All We Can Because Congress Hasn't Acted

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-18 00:45|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [49 views ] Top

#1 Buttigieg is emblematic of the Biden Regime’s penchant for ruining something and then demanding that Congress approve his boondoggle to repair what was never broken before.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-02-18 09:33|| 2024-02-18 09:33|| Front Page Top

#2 "Look what you made me do..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-18 10:03|| 2024-02-18 10:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Just what the situation needs - more laws and regulations!

Posted by Raj 2024-02-18 10:28|| 2024-02-18 10:28|| Front Page Top

#4 "Positive Train Control" (radio linkage) was mandated by Congress shortly after a texting California engineer ran a red signal and crashed his commuter train into a Union Pacific freight in 2008.

So that $5B unfunded mandate didn't do the trick, Pete? How did that affect the prices of railroad-hauled goods?

2008 Chatsworth Collision

Posted by Bobby 2024-02-18 14:42|| 2024-02-18 14:42|| Front Page Top

#5 My understanding is a bearing caught fire leading to a derailment. They are able to positively determine this was the result of willful ~~lack of~~ failure to do maintenance to save money? Considering what it cost the railroad that would be short-sighted stupidity, certainly not "greed."

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-18 14:46|| 2024-02-18 14:46|| Front Page Top

#6 That Buttgig decided to talk Cleveland Steamers on PBS is a tell.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-18 17:52|| 2024-02-18 17:52|| Front Page Top

#7 I have no interest in what that unqualified fag has to say.

Posted by Crusader 2024-02-18 19:40|| 2024-02-18 19:40|| Front Page Top

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