It literally took less than 24 hours before the left took it upon
themselves to turn the horrific Amtrak crash that occurred last night a
political football. It is absolutely pathetic that the left would take to
morning TV on all of the major networks including CBS, NBC, and ABC to try and
blame the republicans for the crash. There gripe is that republicans opposed
increased spending on Amtrak which obviously must of caused the crash.
Before you get all emotional as the left would like you to, let’s take a
quick look at just how inefficient Amtrak has been over the past years any why
increasing spending would not have prevented the crash in the first place.
Amtrak, the U.S. taxpayer-supported passenger
railroad, is losing tens of millions of dollars a year on food and beverage
service even after years of cost cutting, its inspector general said.
Almost all of last year’s $72 million in
food-service losses were from providing meals on long-distance trains,
Inspector General Ted Alves said in testimony at a House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee hearing today. Contracting out some functions has
the greatest potential to stem losses, he said.
Here we have the
inability for Amtrak, a government run agency, to simply provide food service
on their trains. If they can’t get the food service aspect of train service
down pat what makes you think they can efficiently and effectively run other
aspects of a train operation. If private transportation carriers can manage to
provide food services on their carriers whether it be planes, trains, or buses
and still operate at a profit, why can’t Amtrak? Apparently the private
sector has the where with all to figure this out, but as with nearly all
government run agencies there is no accountability because there are endless
funds provided by you and me, the sucker tax payer.
Brietbart goes on to explain,
Amtrak is not
running at a very modest loss. Taxpayers are effectively conscripted into
carrying passengers aboard the trains on sedan chairs. It’s all done with the
opaque machinery of tax-and-spend, to minimize the pain and humiliation of the
people who are compelled against their will, and economic reason, into keeping
the system afloat… except when something goes wrong, and those people are
castigated as greedy S.O.B.s for refusing to pay even more.
Big
Government has a self-sustaining death-spiral logic:
1. Give us money, and we’ll keep bad
things from happening;
2. Every bad
thing that happens proves we need more money.
You may be wondering,
what could possibly be the solution to this problem? Well it's really
quite simple, privatize the entire damn railway system. When
you privatize something you ensure that entity becomes accountable to its
customers and employees too. If Amtrak were a private entity it would
have been lucky to have survived just a couple of years as private entities
cannot operate at such a ridiculous loss. This is what happens when
government runs thing! No one is EVER HELD ACCOUNTABLE and when things go
to shit they just need more time and more tax payer money to piss down the
drain!
So the next time we see government
complain that they haven't had enough funding for a particular entity, take
into account the efficiency with which that underfunded entity operates at.
If it operates at a loss then you have a valid argument to lobby for it
to be privatized!
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