For every job lost, the smaller the tax base for the nation. The Republicans are Anti-American. They don't care about the future of our country, they only care about their cronies. In this case, the petroleum industry is at the heart of the jobloss!
Harkin doesn’t want passenger rail funding cut (click title to entry - thank you)
November 17, 2011
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Some Republicans in Congress are claiming they’ve killed the expensive high-speed rail program President Obama had been pushing to establish. If funding for the proposed multi-billion dollar rail transportation program has been eliminated, Iowa Senator and Democrat Tom Harkin says it would be a real shame.
“I have long advocated, for at least the last 30 years, that we need to develop high-speed rail in America,” Harkin says. “Having ridden on high-speed trains when I was in the military stationed in Japan, they had a train that went 150 miles an hour and that was back in the ’60s.”
Reports say Republicans want to derail the program because it’s too expensive. Harkin hadn’t heard that they succeeded. “I don’t know what the recent reports are on killing high-speed rail,” Harkin says. “I don’t think we’re going to cut that, at least I hope not.”
The president requested $8-billion for the rail program in fiscal year 2012 and a total of $53-billion over six years. The Republican-led U.S. House is set to vote today on a spending measure which reportedly stripped all funding to the high-speed rail program. It should go to the Senate Friday....
Oh, some say there is no cronyism of Republicans with the petroleum industry. Really? Allow me.
Current Events
First published Nov 08 2011 10:06PM
Updated Nov 9, 2011 12:09AM
Americans need to realize that Republicans have no ideas, they have no 'future vision' for the nation and they are more than willing to open up the Middle Class to higher and higher petroleum costs to their budget as time goes on.
That doesn't even begin to address the Climate Crisis and the very real dangers affiliated with it. Yesterday, in the middle of November, tornadoes racked the Southeast. NORMALLY, tornado season in the area of the nation is SPRING, not autumn with winter five weeks away.
Six people died in the southeast USA yesterday. Millions if not billions of dollars in damage and disrupted lives occurred.
Why?
A three year old child is dead today. A three year old child's death due to a CLIMATE CHANGE tornado should make an impression on people and our political leaders.
Why, isn't it making an impression on Republicans that represent these states in Congress?
A three year old North Carolinian child means nothing to Senator Burr, House Representative Renee Ellmers, Walter Jones, Virginia Foxx, Howard Coble and Patrick McHenry.
The scientists in North Carolina are among the most presitious in the world from Duke, NC State and UNCW, just to name a few. They have educated the State Legislature about the Climate Crisis. Under the previous Democratic Governor there were strides made in recognition of this climate danger, yet, the Republicans from North Carolina in the Federal Government can't seem to get their minds around this reality.
A three year old child is dead today because of the Climate Crisis and Republicans in the federal government are pandering to the petroleum industry.
Family members say 50-year-old Janice Shaw and her 3-year-old granddaughter Azlyn Shaw died from injuries related to the storm. The Shaws lived on Meadow Run Lane, near Burkhart Road.
The National Weather Service said the tornado is at least an "upper end" EF2 with winds around 130 mph. The path of the storm is estimated to be 8 miles long and 200 yards wide....
Some Republicans in Congress are claiming they’ve killed the expensive high-speed rail program President Obama had been pushing to establish. If funding for the proposed multi-billion dollar rail transportation program has been eliminated, Iowa Senator and Democrat Tom Harkin says it would be a real shame.
“I have long advocated, for at least the last 30 years, that we need to develop high-speed rail in America,” Harkin says. “Having ridden on high-speed trains when I was in the military stationed in Japan, they had a train that went 150 miles an hour and that was back in the ’60s.”
Reports say Republicans want to derail the program because it’s too expensive. Harkin hadn’t heard that they succeeded. “I don’t know what the recent reports are on killing high-speed rail,” Harkin says. “I don’t think we’re going to cut that, at least I hope not.”
The president requested $8-billion for the rail program in fiscal year 2012 and a total of $53-billion over six years. The Republican-led U.S. House is set to vote today on a spending measure which reportedly stripped all funding to the high-speed rail program. It should go to the Senate Friday....
Oh, some say there is no cronyism of Republicans with the petroleum industry. Really? Allow me.
Current Events
First published Nov 08 2011 10:06PM
Updated Nov 9, 2011 12:09AM
Washington • The Obama administration (click here) cautiously offered up more areas in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska’s coast to oil and gas drilling Tuesday but didn’t go far enough to satisfy Republicans pushing to greatly expand drilling as a way to create jobs and wean the country off foreign oil....
Americans need to realize that Republicans have no ideas, they have no 'future vision' for the nation and they are more than willing to open up the Middle Class to higher and higher petroleum costs to their budget as time goes on.
That doesn't even begin to address the Climate Crisis and the very real dangers affiliated with it. Yesterday, in the middle of November, tornadoes racked the Southeast. NORMALLY, tornado season in the area of the nation is SPRING, not autumn with winter five weeks away.
Six people died in the southeast USA yesterday. Millions if not billions of dollars in damage and disrupted lives occurred.
Why?
A three year old child is dead today. A three year old child's death due to a CLIMATE CHANGE tornado should make an impression on people and our political leaders.
Why, isn't it making an impression on Republicans that represent these states in Congress?
A three year old North Carolinian child means nothing to Senator Burr, House Representative Renee Ellmers, Walter Jones, Virginia Foxx, Howard Coble and Patrick McHenry.
The scientists in North Carolina are among the most presitious in the world from Duke, NC State and UNCW, just to name a few. They have educated the State Legislature about the Climate Crisis. Under the previous Democratic Governor there were strides made in recognition of this climate danger, yet, the Republicans from North Carolina in the Federal Government can't seem to get their minds around this reality.
A three year old child is dead today because of the Climate Crisis and Republicans in the federal government are pandering to the petroleum industry.
Two Dead After Line Of Storms Move Through Central North Carolina (click here for video)
5:01 PM, Nov 17, 2011
Triad, NC -- Two people are dead and several injured in Davidson County after a tornado hit the county Wednesday evening.Family members say 50-year-old Janice Shaw and her 3-year-old granddaughter Azlyn Shaw died from injuries related to the storm. The Shaws lived on Meadow Run Lane, near Burkhart Road.
The National Weather Service said the tornado is at least an "upper end" EF2 with winds around 130 mph. The path of the storm is estimated to be 8 miles long and 200 yards wide....
