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RUSH: This is good. This is Carol Costello, our former stalker at CNN, during a report. This is this morning on the Philadelphia Amtrak crash.<\/p>\n

COSTELLO: I keep hearing how ghoulish it is to bring up funding for Amtrak\u2019s infrastructure. Well, I actually ride an Amtrak train every other weekend because my husband lives in Boston. Last week as my Amtrak train was pulling into Providence, Rhode Island, the engine suddenly stopped working. Power on the train went out! It took them 45 minutes to fix it. The heating and cooling systems on board those trains often don\u2019t work properly. Doors are sometimes stuck open. Sometimes the trains break down in the middle of nowhere. Uh, more importantly, all trains are supposed to be equipped with positive train control by the end of the year. Who knows if that will happen! Is it really ghoulish to bring up these infrastructure problems?<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is the natural progression here of this idiotic narrative<\/a> that the Democrats and media are pushing. So Carol Costello has this list-of-complaints about Amtrak. Has she ever wondered who it is that runs this train system? She loves and adores government. She never will find anything wrong with government (except when Republicans are running it). This laundry list of complaints about Amtrak, “infrastructure problems,” never-ending list. Does she ever stop to think that it is her own precious, infallible government that\u2019s running this thing that has resulted in all of these problems? Does she ever once consider that? <\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Eric in Palm Bay, Florida, great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s an honor and a thrill to talk with you today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m glad you got through, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Me, too. Listen, you were saying something earlier in the program about Washington\u2019s trying to get all of our money running through their control, right?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, what I said was that all money is there. All money goes there. Every dime collected from somebody in this country ends up going to Washington, and then it\u2019s disbursed, spent, stolen, defrauded, grabbed, what have you. But Washington is where it all goes first.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that reminded me of something I saw last year. My family and I were on a lavish, carbon-rich vacation. We had to fly through Dulles, but we got delayed there overnight for weather problems. But the next morning we woke up and we\u2019re driving back to the airport, and I\u2019m looking around this place, and it\u2019s immaculate. There\u2019s no sign of economic stress. There\u2019s nothing burned down, there\u2019s nothing boarded up, there\u2019s no dead cars. Everything\u2019s green and painted and beautiful and bright, and I\u2019m like, “This is the federal ghetto.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you probably stayed close to the airport in your hotel overnight?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. It was Fairfax. Isn\u2019t that one of the seven richest counties in the nation?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah. The whole area there is… All of those ZIP codes combined. Some of the wealthiest ZIP codes is in the area precisely because that\u2019s where the money is. That\u2019s where people go to get the money. The legitimate amount of money that\u2019s in that town every year that\u2019s collected, tax revenue, is around $2 trillion. That\u2019s a lot of money. The government prints more than that. The government borrows more than that. <\/line><\/p>\n

That town is a magnet for people who want money, and they go out of their way to get it in any which way, shape, manner, or form. The unemployment rate in that area is way below the national average, and the reason that this matters is… Don\u2019t misunderstand. Nobody\u2019s criticizing what is a nice area, a good life. Nobody\u2019s criticizing that. That isn\u2019t the point. The point is that the people who live there really have no idea what it\u2019s like in many other parts of the country.<\/p>\n

They end up thinking everybody\u2019s doing well, everything\u2019s okay; that there isn\u2019t any blight anywhere. And if there is, it\u2019s certainly not the fault of the people in Washington. It\u2019s other things. But it isolates people. It walls them off, both physically and attitudinally, and it makes it very difficult for people that actually live there to relate to the lives that the vast majority of Americans are navigating these days.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Carol Costello, and she\u2019s whining and moaning about the basic state of disarray, the state of decomposition, the state of disrepair that her precious Amtrak trains are in. Such as the heating and cooling systems don\u2019t work, the engines sometimes don\u2019t work properly, doors are stuck open, trains break down in the middle of nowhere. She keeps getting on \u2019em. She keeps getting on the thing. <\/p>\n

Would you get on an airplane that may not fly? Would you get on a train where the engine may stop and the doors may stick open in the dead of winter out in the middle of the nowhere? She gets on \u2019em. You know why? Liberals love Europe, and Europe equals trains. Trains equal Europe. Trains equal good liberal. Trains also equal saving the climate and all this cockamamie crap. <\/p>\n

<\/a>I wonder if Carol Costello understands how much Amtrak is subsidized? In other words, what do you think she pays for a trip from Boston to Washington to see her husband now and then? What is it? I wouldn\u2019t know because I\u2019ve never been on an Amtrak train. (interruption) A hundred bucks, $150? (interruption) Okay, but that\u2019s a subsidized price, right? If she had to pay what it really costs, if there was a private sector entity running that thing and trying to run it at a profit — and, by the way, if there were, the engines would work and the doors would not stick.<\/p>\n

If there were private sector industry running Amtrak, every problem she had would be solved. It would have to be or people wouldn\u2019t pay to get on it. As it is, people are paying much less than what it really costs to ride these things because the government, good liberals, subsidizes everybody. That\u2019s why the cars are in a state of disrepair. There is no incentive. This has been done for all the wrong reasons. <\/p>\n

You let some transportation company in the private sector buy this thing and run it, try to make a profit out of it, it\u2019s gonna be spic-and-span. It\u2019s gonna be modernized. Doors and windows won\u2019t stick and all this kind of stuff, but you\u2019ll have to pay for it, too. So you pick your poison. You want to go on a train on a bunch of dilapidated cars you can\u2019t guarantee are gonna get you there on time, the doors and windows may stick open, the engine may stop, but you\u2019re only gonna pay a small fraction of what it would cost otherwise. <\/p>\n

Then don\u2019t complain. Or take a plane. You know, there are shuttles that run from Washington to New York and Boston to Washington, but, you see, that\u2019s not cool. That\u2019s global warming. And then you\u2019ll hear the old saw, “By the time I drive to the airport and check in with TSA and get wanded and have to strip, and then have to put my clothes back on, my shoes back on, and refill all of my congestion bottles and stuff, and then stand in line to get a boarding pass, I could drive to Boston quicker than it\u2019s gonna take me to get there on a plane.” That\u2019s crap, by the way, it\u2019s absolute BS, but it\u2019s become a popular thing to say. Flying is global warming and who knows what have you. <\/p>\n

So I just had a guy say to me, “Yeah, well, you know, she\u2019s got a point. The other day I had to get from Newark to Philadelphia, 80 bucks.”<\/p>\n

I said, “You think 80 bucks Newark to Philadelphia is overpriced?” <\/p>\n

“Yeah, you can do it on a greyhound for 20.” <\/p>\n

I said, “Really? Why didn\u2019t you?” <\/p>\n

“I did. I did.” <\/p>\n

“Well, then why didn\u2019t you walk? It\u2019s not that far.” <\/p>\n

But the people living in Washington, you tell them 80 bucks from Newark to Philadelphia on a train, they think that\u2019s nothing. That\u2019s not even what they spend on the wine at dinner. They can\u2019t relate to people that 60 bucks or 80 bucks to get from one place to another is too expensive. They can\u2019t relate to it. So here come subsidies and all that, and they think you\u2019re doing everybody a favor with all this. It\u2019s no mystery why this stuff doesn\u2019t work. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We just checked it, folks. First class Amtrak on the Acela train from Boston to New York, the Acela Metroliner, is 390 bucks. Let\u2019s round it up. It\u2019s 400 bucks for first class, which would be what Carol Costello would be taking. Do you think you could fly from Washington to Boston on the shuttle for 400 bucks? See, the train\u2019s supposed to be so much cheaper and economical and helping the government and saving the planet and all that. I just wonder. I don\u2019t know what the shuttle ticket is from Washington to Boston or New York, but it\u2019s about 400 bucks first class on the Acela. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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