Both New York and California need help. They spend way too many $$$ providing free stuff to the illegals. They can both take a hike.

I agree with above posts about there being more than enough tax payer dollars to fund this without federal funding.

I live in upstate NY and pay plenty of taxes and continue to see my local community ravaged. I did not know until recently that Rochester (my hometown and residence) is a sanctuary city. We have a young,unqualified black female mayor that is everything and more that you could expect of that description.. and im sick and tired of these elitist degenerates like Cuomo, Schumer, Gillibrand etc etc raping the good hard working people that make things happen here and across the country.

It's my own fault for not having the guts to pick my life up and move. If a real opportunity presented itself I like to think I would take it. But the reality is I'm mired in debt and thats exactly how the system is gamed to keep hard working lower middle class folks working 60 hours a week, exactly where they are and without too many options.

I know this has taken quite the turn from Amtrak, but I don't recognize my town anymore. This world has gotten strange and I think we can all feel it. We make jokes and light of the situation that is going on, but the people who truly run this world are getting increasingly bold.

I don't think Donald Trump has all the answers but when he holds rallies people line up for hours just to be in the room, just to feel that energy. He is just a man, but he has become the symbol for all the men and women who have had enough. It's time that we champion the worker. The people who get up and grind out a long week so that their companies can survive and god willing grow, so that we can continue to cash some checks and try to have a little peace and quiet.

This race agenda is a lie. I work with people of all colors and backgrounds, English as a second language etc etc but they come to work and do their best and they go home and live respectful productive lives. They enhance their communities. They aren't a vermin who demand more and more and never replenish the resources that they consume.

I could go on all day and I apologize again for this being so far off topic. It's just been hard lately to see where this world is going and realize at my relatively young age (30) that I don't think there's going to be much left as I get older

couldn't happen to a nicer city

suck it NY

why do you think your puny little problem rises to the level of needing national relief? what makes you think I have any interest in my tax dollars from AZ going to help you fix your self-inflicted problem?

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
couldn't happen to a nicer city

suck it NY...

I was going to suggest an edit, couldn't happen to a more deserving city. But seems to me Chicago and San Francisco are equally deserving.

The short answer. "No".

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
Just like his father - a sfaccime (as the late Bob Grant called him).

I see what you did there! RIP Bob Grant, enjoying a cup of coffee in the skies above the Woodbridge Diner...

I didn't see anywhere in his letter that the pumping of Fed $$$ would do anything to alleviate the 20% inconvenience situation.

The only thing I read was Gimme, gimme.

Bob

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Originally posted by rbert0005:
I didn't see anywhere in his letter that the pumping of Fed $$$ would do anything to alleviate the 20% inconvenience situation.

The only thing I read was Gimme, gimme.

Bob

It would (temporarily, at least) help with the "inconvenience" the building and mechanical trade unions are facing, what with their dues extor... er, collection... dropping as fewer and fewer business actually build anything in that socialist hellhole.

Since the union bosses can't simultaneously pay themselves AND fund Democrat campaigns without those dues, Cuomo naturally sees this as inconvenient also.

(Edited to add: Wonder what a union worker in NYC actually gets paid? As an example, here's the "prevailing rate" for "Laborers-Rakers" doing asphalt work in that area: $45.35 hourly rate, PLUS $38.30 per hour in "fringe benefits." The "fringes" are generally paid to the union plan, or in their absence, to the worker. That adds to a "loaded rate" of $83.65 per hour for a semi-skilled dude raking and spreading asphalt on a contract. Yes, it's physically demanding. But...)

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Originally posted by DennisM:

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Originally posted by rbert0005:
I didn't see anywhere in his letter that the pumping of Fed $$$ would do anything to alleviate the 20% inconvenience situation.

The only thing I read was Gimme, gimme.

Bob

It would (temporarily, at least) help with the "inconvenience" the building and mechanical trade unions are facing, what with their dues extor... er, collection... dropping as fewer and fewer business actually build anything in that socialist hellhole.

Since the union bosses can't simultaneously pay themselves AND fund Democrat campaigns without those dues, Cuomo naturally sees this as inconvenient also.

(Edited to add: Wonder what a union worker in NYC actually gets paid? As an example, here's the "prevailing rate" for "Laborers-Rakers" doing asphalt work in that area: $45.35 hourly rate, PLUS $38.30 per hour in "fringe benefits." The "fringes" are generally paid to the union plan, or in their absence, to the worker. That adds to a "loaded rate" of $83.65 per hour for a semi-skilled dude raking and spreading asphalt on a contract. Yes, it's physically demanding. But...)

Good points. The feds (ie, the US taxpayer) pumps in say, $100M, but how productive will that money be in accomplishing the desired end result?

FUAC!

Privatize so his cabal can engorge themselves at the taxpayer trough.

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Originally posted by Jimbo54:
Actually, I don't have a problem with this request. Trump did say he wanted to invest in infrastructure and this certainly falls under that heading. The need for close scrutiny with the project will be needed to keep the overruns in check of course.

Jim

NewYork City, the kick backs and payoffs would be enormous and the Democratic party in NY would be cash rich in no time.

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Originally posted by Paragon:
So use the money he wants for his free college.

Where is all the money from the high taxes on gas, cigarettes, soda, salt, property, etc.?

Where do you think,it's a Democrat controlled city for decades.

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Originally posted by satch:

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Originally posted by Jimbo54:
Actually, I don't have a problem with this request. Trump did say he wanted to invest in infrastructure and this certainly falls under that heading. The need for close scrutiny with the project will be needed to keep the overruns in check of course.

Jim

NewYork City, the kick backs and payoffs would be enormous and the Democratic party in NY would be cash rich in no time.

And the problem would only get worse. Kind of like giving a junkie more drugs.

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Originally posted by Jimbo54:
Actually, I don't have a problem with this request. Trump did say he wanted to invest in infrastructure and this certainly falls under that heading. The need for close scrutiny with the project will be needed to keep the overruns in check of course.

Jim

I have a big problem with this shit!

These assholes spend money like water, borrow to pay all kinds of welfare craziness, etc and then when the hammer is about to fall on them for their ultra-liberal nonsense, we are supposed to bail them out.

Recall who is mayor of the major money pit in NY?!?!?!?!?!?

They created this shit sandwich, let them eat it.

ALONE!

Playing devil's advocate here, is it possible that the infusion of federal monies could allow more workers simultaneously, cutting down the length of time that we commuters are inconvenienced?

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Originally posted by hile:
Playing devil's advocate here, is it possible that the infusion of federal monies could allow more workers simultaneously, cutting down the length of time that we commuters are inconvenienced?

Theory vs practice. Yes, in theory, the infusion of federal money could solve the problem sooner with less burden on the people. And in theory, Cuomo et all could become honest politicians. Neither is likely to happen.

Maybe an example of how these things work. Here is a wikipedia excerpt of the "Big Dig", a road construction project in Boston (Ted Kennedy was one of the kingpins behind it).

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...The Big Dig was the most expensive highway project in the US, and was plagued by cost overruns, delays, leaks, design flaws, charges of poor execution and use of substandard materials, criminal arrests,[2][3] and one death.[4] The project was originally scheduled to be completed in 1998[5] at an estimated cost of $2.8 billion (in 1982 dollars, US$6.0 billion adjusted for inflation as of 2006).[6] However, the project was completed only in December 2007, at a cost of over $14.6 billion ($8.08 billion in 1982 dollars, meaning a cost overrun of about 190%)[6] as of 2006.[7] The Boston Globe estimated that the project will ultimately cost $22 billion, including interest, and that it would not be paid off until 2038....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig

if they want federal funds, then lets deal

it becomes a federal project and taken out of the hands of the city

the feds can hire who it wants, giving preference to non-union contractors outside the area so that the local graft and corruption is minimized

now, do you still want that loan?

Yes, FUAC, but he right about one thing. Amtrak needs to give up control of Penn. Amtrak is a disaster and their management has a proven track record of failure.

Maybe if the citizens of NYC are forced to suffer a little their eyes will be opened to the ineptitude of their political leadership.

I wish President Trump could read these replies so he could understand how regular folks see things. Hell, I wish he was a member of this forum.

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Originally posted by dave7378:
Yes, FUAC, but he right about one thing. Amtrak needs to give up control of Penn. Amtrak is a disaster and their management has a proven track record of failure.....

Somewhere I read that Amtrak is being used as a model for how CA plans to run their High Speed Rail. Hmmmm.