"High prices are a top reason for President Biden’s low approval rating, but his policy moves suggest he’s putting union interests ahead of consumers. His Administration is mandating larger crews for thousands of freight trains, driving up the cost of goods with no clear benefit to safety."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rail-carrier-crew-mandate-biden-federal-railroad-administration-norfolk-southern-b5a413f5
The rule here is already two crew in the cab, except work and passenger trains.
shareIKR ?
He should be ditching the saftey regs and forcing those guys to work in unsafe conditions and boosting the chances of massive railway disasters like like Trump did , theres a real man!
Massive railway disasters "like like" Trump? In Obama's first term there were 34 rail deaths and 515 injuries vs 8 deaths and 426 injuries with Trump.
shareThe point is Trump is point took a shit on railroad safety because his billionaire buddies told him it would affect their profits.
Obama did not do that.
no one is saying that on MC. please stop spreading misinformation...
shareI'm saying it !
Although, I'm just going off memory, I have yet to do conclusive research ... which i will .... and I might then prove myself wrong .
I'll get back to you
You just admitted that you have not researched this at all. Yet you claim the Trump has much more lax safety regulations that Biden because his billionaire buddies told him to. You clearly do not like Trump based on personality rather than policies because you did not do any research and have no idea what you are talking about.
shareI didnt just pull that idea out of my ass.
I definitely a news item about him blocking new safety regulations on trains.
And what other possible reason could there be for anyone wanting less safety apart from it affecting profits?
oh look i googled it
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-rolls-back-train-braking-002105066.html
You did when you said you have not done conclusive research. Also, your point is irrelevant when costs were cut and far less deaths and injuries happened. Really unfortunate idea throwing around money to unions when the economy is this bad.
shareAll the magas keep claiming the economy was great when Trump was running it.
Not great enough to improve the braking on trains though.
Not a MAGA, but the economy was much better.
Sad, that you are grasping at straws now to try and support Biden. Spending more money on safety with worse results.
The economy was much worse during the pandemic that Trump mismanaged. Just about everyone else knows your claim is a lie, why don't you? https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/united-states/gnp-gross-national-product
shareYes. The whole country was shut down. Do you remember it was a lockdown. You take the pandemic out of the equation and Biden’s economy is much worse. My claim is not a lie. It must be nice living in denial like you. Also you must be part of the 37 percent that likes Biden. That is embarrassing since every choice he has made during his presidency has been a disaster.
shareWhy would you take the pandemic out of the equation? It happened on Trump's watch, after breaking up the pandemic response team put in place to help him. He tried to deny it was happening, then he said it would just go away like a miracle. He came out with "his" vaccine and then refused to publicly acknowledge that he had the shot for a while just to curry favor with his anti-vax sycophants.
He claimed he could keep the economy running, but he decided not to.
Your claim is an obvious lie. Tell the truth instead.
You are acting like COVID was created by Trump. It was not. It did not even originate in the United States. Trump also never got the COVID shot during his term as he ending up contracting COVID. Again, you cannot gun a country when there is a lockdown or when a major pandemic is occuring. The only one who has not told the truth here is you.
shareI am not acting like Covid was created by Trump. But Trump dragged his feet as much as possible and invented obstacles to ensure that as many Americans as possible got infected and died.
What do you mean by "gun a country"? Did you mean run a country? Trump said he could do just that. Trump repeatedly said he could do anything.
You clearly are making up lies by saying Trump tried to infect and kill as many Americans as possible. I was typing on a phone and it was a typo, but you knew what I meant.
You never responded to why Biden would be a better alternative President, but since you just make up lies and ignore reality when it does not fitcyour narrative, I really have no interest in what your ignorant and false reply would be.
You're the only one bringing up Biden. Biden support is not coming from me at all.
Why are you ignoring that Trump repeatedly claimed he could do anything he wanted? Are you claiming this does not include properly managing a pandemic and keeping the economy running instead of locking it down?
It was reported that Trump was vaccinated while in the White House. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-covid-19-vaccine-january-white-house/
Just because a person was vaccinated does not mean they are 100% protected. Why would you push this false claim? Did you really believe Biden when he claimed you would not get Covid if you got the vaccine?
Trump also claimed he got the Covid booster. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-donald-trump-coronavirus-vaccine-74abcd4e6833835f5df445fe2142e22b
You’re on Biden’s page about Biden. The orinal poster did not even bring up Trump. I never said that you cannot get COVID if you get once. Look at my last post and tell me when I said that? You obviously have no proof and use lies to back up your narrative. Tell me once where Trump said he wanted people to get infected with COVID and die? You also can’t because it never happened. This conversation is over because you cannot support your argument with facts and you are a troll as another already pointed out and I am not going to give you anymore attention.
shareYou brought up Trump in the portion of the thread that I am replying to now. You're really getting upset that people are talking about Trump in the Biden section of the forum after you brought up Trump? Are we supposed to ignore your comments on Trump just to avoid hurting your feelings?
They have a whambulance for people like you.
I said Trump dragged his feet, not that he said something.
You're an attention whore, you will be back, probably. :)
If it was more dangerous before Trump supposedly "took a shit on railroad safety because his billionaire buddies told him it would affect their profits" then you have no point.
shareWhy would it be more dangerous before?
It was going to get safer , but Trump blocked it and it didnt
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-rolls-back-train-braking-002105066.html
More deaths/injuries under Obama first term vs Trump's. You still have no point.
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Where did you get those numbers?
sharehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_railroad_accidents
shareTry again. Wikipedia says that is not a complete list of accidents. If it had said there were more accidents while Trump was president, would you still have used that data?
shareThe list goes back to the 1830's. Are you suggesting that if there are missing accidents it must have been when Trump was president?
shareI was going to suggest that you merely overlooked what the page said at the top;
List of American railroad accidents
This is a list of the most serious U.S. rail-related accidents (excluding intentional acts such as the 1939 City of San Francisco derailment).
I never claimed it was all rail accidents. Keep grasping at straws.
shareSo you're happy with cherry picking the number of accidents, then claiming that there were fewer accidents under Trump than Obama?
It this how you say Trump won in 2020? Just ignore millions of votes, then declare that Trump won?
[–] Branson26 (444) 6 days ago
Massive railway disasters "like like" Trump? In Obama's first term there were 34 rail deaths and 515 injuries vs 8 deaths and 426 injuries with Trump.
Don't misquote what I claimed.
shareThe sentence I quoted is complete, I did not alter it at all.
Here is your claim from above, again.
[–] Branson26 (449) 6 days agoshare
Massive railway disasters "like like" Trump? In Obama's first term there were 34 rail deaths and 515 injuries vs 8 deaths and 426 injuries with Trump.
Yes, I said nothing about more deaths under Trump just you being pathetic:
"You really expect anyone to think you are telling us that there were actually more rail deaths while Trump was president?"
Railroad crossing incidents have been steadily declining over the last decades. https://oli.org/track-statistics/collisions-casualties-year
shareRepublican-controlled Congress has held back spending on safety measures going back to the 90s. Give credit for shitty governance where it's due.
Republicans know that fixing Federal agencies takes time, but they'd rather dismantle those agencies resulting in failures and disasters to justify ending them altogether.
It's ironic that a majority of those idiots in East Palesteen support these same Republicans while simultaneously demand Democratic Presidents to bail them out on the taxpayers dime.