Daily national embarrassment Marjorie Greene has decided to blame
the east Palestine Ohio train derailment on lazy
Americans who are contributing to the labor shortage.
Now of course that has absolutely nothing to do with the trail derailment which I'm
going to debunk and give you the details of in just a moment.
But before we do why don't we dive into Greenes insane Twitter thread where she
writes, our nation's rail system is a very critical part of our supply chain and
the integrity of our railroad tracks and all of its working components and
gears must be maintained.
Then she pivots to this, with labor shortages that can also be
a difficult task and take longer to accomplish to be safe.
She elaborates more on the labor shortage.
Not only do we have a shortage of people, we have a shortage of good values.
Please spare me anything you might have to say about good values Marjorie Greene,
but let me continue reading what she had to say about this, and
hard work is one of the most important good values America is losing or has lost.
Think about this,
how many kids do you hear say they wanna be a train engineer when they grow up?
I don't know, I mean if kids are paying any attention to the news,
they'd know that people who work for
these major rail companies can't take a single day off without being retaliated
against because the rail companies have laid off so many of their employees,
they went from a work force of a million employees to only 200,000.
You know why they did that Marjorie Greene?
To maximize their profits, it had nothing to do with people refusing to work but
let me continue.
If kids say it when they're five years old, our society's
projected values change their minds by the time they're 18 years old.
Our society teaches them to want to either work as little as possible or
to chase dreams they think will make them rich but are only attainable by very few.
And then just one more, one more from her Twitter thread here where she says,
there are also many young Americans who spend their
days dazed from using marijuana all day and unfortunately confused.
No, so the East Palestine train derailment is
because people are smoking pot and they're lazy.
When in reality it has everything to do with these companies
wanting to maximize profits by ensuring that
they have the bare minimum workforce necessary to do the job.
And there's deregulation, that's a huge problem as well,
including the transport of toxic chemicals through our rail system.
And I'll give you the details in a moment, but I wanted you to look.
>> So she pointed out that this was a disaster and
the government should do something.
The Representative should do something about it like a day ago and
I was like, that's interesting Rashida to leave a just democrats saying we should do
something Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The theoretical populist on the right wing saying we should do something.
Imagine if they got together in real bipartisanship and
challenged the corporate Republicans and corporate Democrats.
That would be amazing, wouldn't it?
It would get a ton of attention and maybe we can get something fixed.
Come on, of course that wasn't gonna happen.
So we went from a train derailment to our policy derailment.
So she went from, hey, maybe we should do something about it, what should we do?
Well, we could fix the brakes, they don't have modern brakes, you could make sure
they don't not carrying or they're taking safety precautions when they carry
hazardous chemicals that could blow up like that happened in Ohio.
No, she went to the average American workers are bum lazy.
It's not the corporation's fault, it's your fault.
That's a populist, okay, the world's most ironic populist.
Okay, no and look at what Anna said,
they went from a million workers down to 200,000.
You think it's because 800,000 people were lazy?
No, they fired him you morons.
They fired him, you idiot, okay.
What a useful idiot you are for the corporate machines, Marjorie Taylor Greene
right wing, please wake up, you're also getting killed out there.
Wake up and wait till you hear Charlie Kirk and other morons.
>> All right, so let's give you the details.
So as we've mentioned a billion times, deregulation has a lot to do with it.
Maximizing profits has a lot to do with it.
The railroad workers United pinned this threat on rail industry cuts to
inspection staff and the elimination of safety protocol.
>> Obviously.
>> The East Palestinian train was hurried.
The nonprofit said in a statement and though a cause hasn't been
fully determined, they believe that it was an issue with one of the axles,
it appears the train was not properly inspected.
Rail companies laid off more than 20,000 rail workers during
a year period in 2018-2019 meeting before the pandemic.
Representing the biggest layoffs in rail since the great recession and
the nation's rail force has dipped below 200,000,
the lowest ever and down from one million at its peak.
Finally, I wanna read this quote because it's from a former Norfolk Southern
freight engineer who says, they have cut the hell out of the workforce and
there are big plans to cut it further just because the rail companies are profitable,
doesn't mean they're healthy.
In fact, if they're highly profitable, there's a good chance they're not healthy
because in order to maximize those profits, they lay off workers that they
obviously desperately need in order to ensure that the safety protocols are met.
>> Okay guys, we're not saying that the trains shouldn't be profitable.
We're saying they don't need to have the massive margins that they have now.
You can use some of your gigantic profits on safety protocols,
which by the way, it's not you can you must do that.
In a same society, we would require them to do that.
Otherwise not only is the potential harm to you guys.
The fish are dead in a Palestine that a lot of the pets are sick.
People are coming out with the rations, etc already.
Of course, it's gonna damage you guys.
But not only does it damage your health, but
now the government ie your taxes have to pay for their disaster.
That's their cost, that's not our cost, why do we have to pay for it?
Right wing, why do you have to pay for it?
Because there's corporate rule America and they're crushing us, please wake up.