WEBVTT - Rush Limbaugh Feb 05, 2021

0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.280
<v Speaker 1>According to Politico, the biggest public transit system in America

0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.120
<v Speaker 1>is facing ruin. Will Congress step in and save it?

0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:11.120
<v Speaker 1>After the coronavirus hit, New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority got

0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.080
<v Speaker 1>a four billion dollar bailout from Washington. They blew through it.

0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.919
<v Speaker 1>Now they're facing a ten billion dollar deficit, and they're

0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.080
<v Speaker 1>worried the three billion dollars the MTA gets from taxes

0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.720
<v Speaker 1>won't come through because the tax base has gone. Now

0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:30.240
<v Speaker 1>all options are supposedly on the table. Massive increases in fairs,

0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:35.000
<v Speaker 1>slashing the workforce, which means war with the union, slashing

0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:40.080
<v Speaker 1>the operating budget, slashing service. Even if Governor Cuomo takes

0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.320
<v Speaker 1>all these actions, they're still gonna be billions in the whole.

0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.680
<v Speaker 1>If New York Mass Transit fails, Liberals fear it will

0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.960
<v Speaker 1>lead to an economic crisis in the entire Northeast. So

0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:54.320
<v Speaker 1>New York politicians are begging the federal government for thirty

0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:58.440
<v Speaker 1>two billion dollars to keep the transit authority going. Democrats

0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.760
<v Speaker 1>who run the House are happy to spend whatever Andrew

0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.160
<v Speaker 1>Cuomo and Chuck you Schumer asked for, but Republicans not

0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:08.000
<v Speaker 1>so much. Why should the Republicans intervene. Northeast liberals have

0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.600
<v Speaker 1>spent every wakened moment for the last four years trashing Trump,

0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.440
<v Speaker 1>and now they come in hat in hand, begging for

0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.959
<v Speaker 1>billions to save the city. They are destroying the proper responses.

0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.480
<v Speaker 1>It's hold, we go pound sand and at a landfill.

0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.480
<v Speaker 1>Let them fix their problems themselves. They're gonna have to

0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:30.520
<v Speaker 1>save that city somehow, especially since their policies caused these problems.