Hardball host Chris Matthews educates Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter on how to be even more leftist, assuming such a thing is possible.
Sounding like a wannabe Mussolini, Matthews bemoans the fact that the trains don’t run on time and that we spend all our money on defense rather than upgrading our rail system.
“You know, I don’t understand why this country is so far behind other countries,” Matthews complained. “If you go, if you’re lucky enough to get to Europe, you know my kids talk about getting through the Chunnel, under the English Channel, in a couple of minutes. These kids studying overseas in their third year. The Europeans seem to have fast trains that go 300 miles and hour and we’re chugging along with Amtrak and Acela and we’re still flying around short distances. First you, Mr. Mayor. You’re on the Amtrak route. Why can’t this federal government use the power of the, the workforce we have out there, put ‘em all to work and build a train system in this country or fast rail so we can – and this sounds so pathetic – catch up to Europe and Japan! Why don’t we do that? Catch up to the other major countries?”
“I hate to sound like a lefty” Matthews said “But the fact is we’re spending all this money on our defense programs – McDonnell-Douglas, Boeing…Why can’t we do what other major powers do? Build a modern society. Instead of fighting all the wars supposedly for everybody else?”
At this point Granholm, apparently mesmerized by the brilliance of Matthews discourse and perhaps experiencing her own leg tingle, exclaimed to Matthews “You should run for office!”
Chris Matthews doesn’t want to sound like a lefty? Sorry, Chris, but that train already left the station.
Source: NewsBusters.org
- Written by Patrick Michael
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The reason reason European Countries have the money to spend on all their social spending programs in the first palce is because they spend little to nothing on their military Chris. We Americans foot the bill for protecting their worthless butts for the most part. Thus they can afford to worry about train schedules,global warming myths and the like.
Catch up to them? Really?
1) our healthcare in the US exceeds that of all of the countries in europe combined.
2) our country is too populous-and large to have fast rail…too many crossings, and crossings aren’t a good thing to have when a train is going 300 mph.
3) America is more vast than the whole of europe-so having air travel over trains is more cost effective(he just cant add)
4) japan is the size of Florida in total land mass-of course you can have light/fast rail from end to end-that is easy-and really cheap.
5) A high speed rail system in the US would cost 200 billion+ to build-and at least that much a year for upkeep.
6) The military of the US is what has kept EUROPE and JAPAN safe since 1945. the US military alone has done it.
7) Someone needs to kick that punk’s ass. he is a turd-a loser, and idiot, a charlatan, and is so backwards in his thinking I ALMOST feel sorry for him-but then I hear the sewage spew from his mouth and I remember he does it to himself. And thus, I go back to wanting desperately to get in a fist fight with him. I would give him the first 10 hits, and would still school him.