Fox’s Neil Cavuto continued defending Republican spending cuts to Amtrak, even in the wake of this week’s deadly train crash – by attacking those who think Amtrak’s funding should be increased.

Guest Jonah Goldberg was the designated attacker. He said calls for more Amtrak spending are “ghoulish,” and “the civil society equivalent of war profiteering.”

GOLDBERG: If this had been a terrorist attack and people had, before the bodies were even cleared, started talking about how this means we have to have more Pentagon funding, the same people who were screaming about how we need to fund this boondoggle of Amtrak would be crying, “How dare you try to profit off of the deaths of these people? Let ‘em get buried first.”

Actually, asking for more funding for Amtrak is not profiteering. It’s lobbying for something experts feel is needed.

But Cavuto didn’t challenge the smear. So Goldberg kept it up. He said the calls for more funding are “the most craven, opportunistic, and shameless money grubbing by people who just want to pour good money after bad into a 19th century technology that I think I’ve ever seen.”

Goldberg also called high speed rail is “an inefficient and silly thing to pursue.”  He said, “We move freight by trains in America, we move people by automobiles.” He accused train supporters of wanting to “organize this aspect of our economy because of their envy for European train travel."

Cavuto gave his stamp of approval at the end:  “Jonah, thank you, it’s always good talking to you my friend.”

Watch it below, from the May 14 Your World.