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RUSH: The Amtrak crash. Here\u2019s another one. This is falling apart right in front of the left\u2019s eyes but they\u2019re not gonna acknowledge it. But everything they\u2019ve been saying is falling apart. You know, “Infrastructure! Infrastructure!” It turns out that this latest technology that would stop an out-of-control speeding train? It\u2019s there! It\u2019s been installed! It just hasn\u2019t been turned on. <\/p>\n

The bottom line is this accident happened because there\u2019s no reason a bureaucracy as large as the transportation department or the federal government should be running the operation. It\u2019s simply incompetent because it\u2019s too big. There are too many people doing too many things with no accountability, no central authority, and things aren\u2019t getting done. And then you have this conductor… Is that what they call these people? Engineer? <\/p>\n

He\u2019s out there tweeting all over. A tweet fest of this guy\u2019s has been discovered. He\u2019s apparently a union activist in addition to being a gay activist, and he\u2019s been tweeting and Facebooking, whatever, left and right that the work schedules are causing engineers to work 12\/14 hours and he\u2019s worried about engineers falling asleep on the job. These are long-ago tweets, weeks-ago tweets. So it could well be that this was a…<\/line><\/p>\n

Well, I don\u2019t want to speculate. But it could be self-fulfilling prophecy type of thing. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. Amtrak… What I was talking about is very simple. There\u2019s a report that the safety equipment that could have prevented the accident hasn\u2019t been held back by lack of funding. You\u2019ve seen that. “It was infrastructure! The Republicans didn\u2019t spend enough money!” You\u2019ve seen all that. That\u2019s BS, folks. It\u2019s BS from the first time the syllables were formed in the first brain of the liberal that first uttered it. <\/p>\n

The safety equipment and the installation and turning it on has been held up because it\u2019s so complex, they can\u2019t figure out how to make it work, specifically the FCC, who has to release more bandwidth for the GPS system in this braking system to work. It\u2019s installed! It\u2019s ready to go! They just can\u2019t figure it out. And nobody\u2019s busting their rear end to. That\u2019s the thing about bureaucracies: There\u2019s never any urgency. <\/p>\n

In fact, the truth of bureaucracies is the less that gets done, the more the bureaucracy is seen as needed. So the modus operandi for bureaucracies is to do as little as they can to get by. If the bureaucracy accomplishes a lot, at some point people are gonna say it isn\u2019t needed. That\u2019s the perverted way they look at it. So much of government and so much of liberalism is misunderstood because at the top of the list of things that are required is self-perpetuation. Whatever you do as a bureaucrat, you do not do anything that will harm your bureaucracy. <\/p>\n

<\/a>You do not do anything that will not perpetuate your bureaucracy. You do not do anything that will result in your bureaucracy having a budgeting cut. The best way to see to all of that is to get as little done as possible while having convenient people to blame. In this case, the Republicans — stingy, extremist, mean-spirited, cold-hearted Republicans — when that\u2019s nowhere near the truth. There\u2019s just no urgency. The equipment\u2019s installed. It just hasn\u2019t turned it on because haven\u2019t figured out a bandwidth problem for the GPS. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s there! <\/p>\n

Saving lives is not even enough to speed up the process.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: First I want to play a couple sound bites, because there is a Republican fighting back on this silly Amtrak stuff about the Republicans being to blame because of lack of funding or lack of compassion or not caring about infrastructure. This is another one of these episodes that is just utterly irresponsible, the way the Democrats and the media are handling this, and it is classic in its illustration that they do not really care about people. Here we have a tragedy, and they don\u2019t even see it. <\/p>\n

They see an opportunity.<\/p>\n

They see a golden opportunity to rip Republicans and advance their agenda of growing government, when big government is the cause! Big government is the reason that train derailed. Big government is one of the factors. Big government: Out of control, incompetent, unaccountable bureaucracies. It\u2019s not lack of funding. There isn\u2019t anything that\u2019s ever cut. We\u2019re $18 trillion in debt! That ought to be automatically rejected whenever anybody cites it as a reason for anything happening.<\/p>\n

Lack of money? That\u2019s the last thing that is relevant. We\u2019re $18 trillion in debt! We\u2019ve spent money that we don\u2019t have and that we\u2019re never going to get back. Yet the Democrats keep talking about budget cuts, and they keep talking about Republicans not caring. It\u2019s just the act opposite. John Mica, who is a Republican from Florida, is finally fed up, and I think this is great. This is what every Republican should be out there doing. This happened this morning on CNN with the clueless Carol Costello. <\/p>\n

She said, “You yourself called Amtrak ‘a Third World passenger rail operation.\u2019 Why?” What do you mean, Third World? How dare you say that!<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t say that, but that\u2019s what she\u2019s thinking, \u2019cause she\u2019s rides Amtrak. She rides Amtrak from Washington to Boston to see her husband<\/a>, and she was complaining yesterday about doors and windows that don\u2019t close and windows, and engines that stop working and break down, and heating and cooling systems that don\u2019t work and delays. So he comes out and says, yeah. We basically have “a Third World passenger rail operation.” (Costello impression) “What do you mean, Third World train system!” <\/line><\/p>\n

Because she is not gonna sit idly by and let her precious government be insulted. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what he said…<\/p>\n

MICA: The United States has a Third World rail system. It\u2019s a monopoly run in a Soviet-style operation, Amtrak. (chuckles) Almost every country in the world is bringing in the private sector to invest to create high-speed rail. The Obama administration took $10 billion, and put most of it into California where cows and vegetables are the only thing that are going to be served between Bakersfield and Fresno. It doesn\u2019t even connect into a major metropolitan area. So it\u2019s not how much money you spend; it\u2019s where you spend the money, and we\u2019re spending billions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And then government\u2019s chief defender here, Carol Costello, said, “The House Appropriations Committee voted down a Democrat amendment that would have offered $825 million for the technology known as positive train control. And according to the NTSB, that technology, if it had been in place, this accident wouldn\u2019t have happened.” So here she is just blindly saying, “That $825 million, why, it would have been magic! If we would have just spent $825 million, why, this wouldn\u2019t have happened!” Just totally clueless, and still gets hired. <\/p>\n

Anyway, here\u2019s what Mica said to that…<\/p>\n

MICA: We\u2019ve given Amtrak between a billion and a billion and a half almost every one of years I\u2019ve been in Congress. They\u2019re spending money on bonuses for executives. They\u2019re spending money to subsidize losing food service. In about a dozen years, they\u2019ve lost a billion dollars in captive food service operation. The entire world is now opening state-supported rail to competition, and —<\/p>\n

COSTELLO: Not Japan or China or Europe! The government pays for their systems!<\/p>\n

MICA: (chuckles) See, you\u2019re wrong. You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about. In England, Virgin Rail —<\/p>\n

COSTELLO: China?<\/p>\n

MICA: — is privately operated. In Russia, they\u2019ve actually brought in public-private partners. They have high-speed rail between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Amtrak blocks any competition.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And let me give you one other thing to ponder here: How is it possible that Amtrak cannot make any money when terrorists and TSA have made flying such a pain in the rear? And the last we looked a terrorist event has not occurred on a train, has it? Nope. Amtrak has record ridership, and they still can\u2019t make any money. You would think that railroads would be enjoying a golden age here, just on the safety aspect alone. Taxpayers have given Amtrak more than $46 billion. <\/p>\n

Amtrak gets a billion and after a year, on top of their outrageous prices to get from the wildly expensive tickets. What he said here about captive food service? How do you lose a billion dollars on catering and food service, when your customers cannot go anywhere else? Do you think they lose on catering operations, concessions at ballparks? Think they lose money there? And you know who\u2019s running those outfits, don\u2019t you? Ha-ha! You know who\u2019s running those things.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, it is just outrageous, and here come these defenders. “But it\u2019s the government, and only the government can make it right! The government can make it fair.” Whatever they come up with to justify the government doing, it\u2019s the government\u2019s the problem. Remember, the system that she\u2019s up here talking about, “That $825 million, why wasn\u2019t it authorized? The Republicans opposed it, and if they hadn\u2019t, a fail-safe system…” The fail-safe, whatever the system is, is in. <\/line><\/p>\n

The system that would slow down a renegade, runway train, is in. It just hasn\u2019t been turned on. You know why it hasn\u2019t been turned on? Because the FCC too busy out there worrying about net neutrality (which is another misnomer) has not gotten around to approving and finding the spectrum for bandwidth for GPS for the system. ‘Cause there\u2019s no hurry. It\u2019s Amtrak! You want the dirty little secret? Amtrak\u2019s losing money. A Carol Costello points out, the windows and doors stick open or stick closed.<\/p>\n

The engines shut down. It\u2019s basically a mess. It\u2019s probably not the cleanest bunch of trains you can get on, and they have no competition. And it\u2019s precisely because they have no competition! It\u2019s just… This is what\u2019s so frustrating to us conservatives, folks, I have to tell you. Because the evidence of government failure is everywhere. The evidence of government incompetence, government waste is everywhere. <\/p>\n

Not just Amtrak; I\u2019m talking about everywhere. Whatever government takes over gets worse. The people that run it at government would never be hired for the same job in the private sector. That\u2019s why they\u2019re in government. And it is a very frustrating thing because people still turn to government to fix things. For some reason government\u2019s fair, for some reason government is this or that, and it\u2019s just the nature of bureaucracies. Anyway, been through it, done that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Dan in Muskegon, Michigan. Great to have you, sir. Thank you for waiting. You\u2019re up next at the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Former mailman dittos to you. I\u2019m wondering, where is the outrage from the independents on the Democrats railing against the Amtrak train that failed, even as people were drawing their last breath, how come the independents aren\u2019t outraged at the Democrats for doing that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is an excellent question and a question that is born of superior perception and listening skills of the caller. Let me explain. One of the tricks that the Republican — I\u2019m convinced it\u2019s a trick. If it\u2019s not a trick, if we have willingly signed on to this, then our consultants are morons. But he\u2019s asking about something the Republicans have been brought to believe, that the independents do not like bickering; the independents do not like arguing; the independents do not like yelling; the independents do not like raised voices; the independents do not like partisanship; the independents do not like people who are highly opinionated; the independents do not like people who are confrontational. <\/p>\n

And the minute any Republican expresses an opinion, the independents don\u2019t like it and run right back to the Democrat Party. See, for some reason the independents are sitting out there undecided. We don\u2019t know why, but it\u2019s just because they\u2019re independents. But it doesn\u2019t take much to send them racing back to the Democrat Party. If a Republican comes along and criticizes Obama, the independents, we\u2019re told, harumpf and say, “Enough of them,” and they run right back to the Democrat Party. If a Republican comes along and questions a Democrat, independents don\u2019t like it. <\/p>\n

The bottom line is, the Republican Party\u2019s been made to believe that when Republicans act like Republicans, the independents, who are willing to support them for some other reason, will willingly abandon them and go running right back to the Democrat Party. And the theory is that independents do not like bickering, and they do not like anger, and they do not like this and that. <\/p>\n

So the question is, “Well, then, why do the independents put up with all of that from Democrats? Why do the independents put up with riots? Why does that not bother them? Why does the media and the Democrat Party immediately criticizing the Republicans as a cause of a train derailment not bother the independents?” And of course it\u2019s great question. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I think this is all trick. And it\u2019s an age-old trick. I mean, Republicans have believed this. If you doubt me, have you ever heard a Republican candidate, particularly presidential candidate in 2008 or in 2012 say something like this: “Well, yeah, but if we go after Obama, we have to go after his policy, Rush. We can\u2019t go after him personally, you know what I mean? We go after his policies, but not him, you got it, Rush?” What do you think that\u2019s rooted in? ‘Cause if we go after Obama personally, the independents aren\u2019t gonna like it. <\/p>\n

Somehow the independents will put up with us if we only go after his policies, but then we gotta be careful after we go after his policies \u2019cause we can\u2019t criticize him while we criticize his policies. So that\u2019s why I think it\u2019s a trick. And I think that is why the Republican establishment is hell-bent on being seen as pro-amnesty. I think it\u2019s responsible for a lot of Republican behavior, thinking that behaving in a reasonable and well spoken and nonconfrontational, nonconservative, nonargumentative way, as though we\u2019re all C-SPAN hosts and NPR hosts. <\/p>\n

This is the way that we will steal votes from Democrats if we just approach the electorate this way and assure them that we don\u2019t want to kill them and we don\u2019t want to harm them and we don\u2019t want to starve them and we don\u2019t want to take their money. We just assure them that that\u2019s all BS. And speaking to them like this, they should vote for us in droves. That\u2019s the theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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