If Amtrak IS Dismantled, Perhaps Time to Force The Railroads back into the Passenger Business

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSF railfan.

Ill tell you what,Ill get over it when we TAX payers stop paying for a stupid system that makes NO profit. Every god damn I turn around the stupid government forks out millions of tax paying money to keep those EMPTY trains running. The American public will never give up their cars,"never".
What makes me so mad is, why can't amtrak stop going after the tax payers every time for help just to bail them out? Amtrak just must love to milk us tax payers to death.[:(!]

I'm sorry but I see no point in your business of whining about tax dollars, especially with the benefits to society that rail transit over automobile transit (especially concerning the coming global oil deficit and rising gas prices, global-warming, etc.). You don't want your tax dollars used to bail out businesses that are turning little or no profit? How about airlines? Should they just be let to go under, too? Unfortunately capitalism is not yet refined and hasn't evolved enough to make taxes unnecessary, so I think it best you stop complaining about something so petty and deal with the dent that taxes put in your personal budget, as it stands now it just makes you sound mighty selfish. How about 217 billion dollars spent on the blunder of Iraq? Now THERE's something real to complain about your tax dollars going to. Hopefully people will wake up soon enough and realize that American Rail Passenger SErvice is not something to let slide into history due to the greed of certain people and the chinsey-ness of a cut-Happy administration.

[Anonymous]

It is amazing there is still such economic ignorance. There is no obligation to run passenger trains that lose money. Railroads are not going to run passenger trains that lose money and this government is not going to force them to do so. For those who want to live in a police state, there is still North Korea and Cuba. Those who think others should pay for them to ride on passenger trains are going to be disappointed. Go to an amusement park and pay your own way.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSF railfan.

Ill tell you what,Ill get over it when we TAX payers stop paying for a stupid system that makes NO profit. Every god damn I turn around the stupid government forks out millions of tax paying money to keep those EMPTY trains running. The American public will never give up their cars,"never".
What makes me so mad is, why can't amtrak stop going after the tax payers every time for help just to bail them out? Amtrak just must love to milk us tax payers to death.[:(!]

Congress designed AMTRAK to be a financial failure. Congress continues to perfect and refine the failure they have created.

[Anonymous]

[#ditto]