in additional potential losses. senator chris coons of delaware and bob kasie of pennsylvania travel the northeast corridor regularly and say more public inrestment in amtrak is critical to american competitiveness. we need to invest in modernizing our infrastructure and improving safety systems if we re going to continue to be globally ketive. reporter: on the other side, a republican, like john boehner who said amtrak s problems are about management, not money. adequate funds were there, no money cut from rail safety and the house passed a bill earlier this spring to reauthorize amtrak and authorize a lot of these programs. reporter: they say republicans philosophical objection to spending anything related to government is amtrak s real problem. members of congress changed the dialogue and created pressure on republican members whether moderate or conservative that i think changed the game. reporter: this congressman
system what s called that positive train control had been in place in that part of philadelphia. they expected it to be in the place by the end of this year. republicans on the house appropriations committee, you re on the senate side they rejected some funding thanks have been used for various technology but listen to this exchange earlier, just a little while ago between the house speaker john boehner and a reporter who asked about amtrak funding. listen to this. are you really going to ask? that s a stupid question. listen you know they started this yesterday, and it s all about funding, it s all about funding. well, obviously itst s not about funding. the train was going twice the speed limit. adequate money was there, no money cut from the safety. and a house passed a bill to reauthorize amtrak and authorize a lot of these programs. and it s hard for me to imagine that people take the bait on
senior citizens i like to think of them as young folks, my parents fall in that category. but they re the ones who typically go to vote in the midterm elections, right? much more in droves, than, for example, the younger group of people that they were so actively trying to get to sign up for obamacare. the democrats were in a real bind. 22 of them wrote a letter saying, please, ease up on these cuts because there s an election coming, seniors vote in large numbers. if they find the cost of their health care which they re paying for goes up, they re going to blame us, the democrats, obamacare. hence, the absence of cuts this year. what happens after the midterm elections because there s this report out today that says, uh-oh, look forward to huge cuts coming up. yes. under obamacare, cuts in medicare advantage are scheduled over the next ten years, worth $156 billion. the money cut from advantage was supposed to go to fund obamacare.
privatized. today there are more private security people in america than police working directly for govern thement. oakland california was run to the ground and when the city ran out of money cut out the police force. plan then rose. they they hired private security it was better. the presence of patrol seems to reduce crimes in an area by 70 percent. in the two years prior to the patrols going live we had about 30 burglaries. in the four and a half months since we have had one burglary and one attempted. crime is down and residents are happier. government offers guarantees on paper and promises and speeches but government rarely delivers. market competition does. they aren t perfect but they allow for a world where prudence is rewarded and sloth punished a world in which people are more
i think that president obama s tumbling approval numbers since the sequester prove that the strategy was a little off base. i also think that stories like the one on your paper s front page today about agriculture secretary tom vilsack pressuring the administration to essentially return money cut by the sequester really dulls the argument that a lot of these cuts would be completely irreversible and devastating. putting public opinion of the president and congress aside, i m wondering what you think the sequester moment, what impact that will have on the public s opinion of the cuts versus revenue debate. will we see any shift on that account, do you think? well, i think if there is good news for the democrats, nobody is particularly paying attention. the economic matters in general have faded as people are thinking about other matters such as gay marriage or north