Amtrak Washington train crash: Deaths as carriages fall on US motorway

[Catfish]

As i know from a befriended UP conductor, the neglect of maintenance in US infrastructure and especially railroads, is breathtaking.


In Germany, railroads were initially a national institution, like mail and a lot of other infrastructure back then. Only some decades ago, it was decided to privatise the railroads and mail services, to "spare the tax payer money", for maintenance and the like or so they said.

Did i say that the railroads (as postal services, buildings, stock) had been built and bought with tax payer's money? This "privatising" is disappropriation of the people, nothing else. Take away from the lot of thepeople, to make a few rich.

So the private companies 'bought' railroads from the state for one symbolic D-Mark, and then tried to quench out of it as much as possible, raising prices, of course doing nothing to hold up the standards, or maintain the railroads, or rolling stock. Which led to neglect, decay, less service and finally a lot of accidents, of course.

Every time the privatised railroads run by companies fail in the end, they will be bought back by the state for lots of money, and then added repair and maintenance – once more all done with the tax payer's money.
And then it all starts again, full circle.

Communism does not work because people are not noble enough.
Capitalism works because the dumbness of the people can be taken for granted.