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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by BaltACD [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan What I can't figure out is why congress hates Amtrak so much that they want it to fail but can't do it right away and official? What is the point that they are trying to make if any? [/quote] AMTRAK was 'designed' during the Nixon Administration as a means to relieve the Private railroads of the requirements to operate passenger service which had become a money loosing proposition for nearly every carrier that still operated any service at all. Congress had, and still has, the vision that the passenger train is an anachrisim in the 20th and now 21st Centrury with the ready availablity of road and air means of transport. With that vision, Congress designed AMTRAK to ALWAYS have to feed at the public money trough with the expectation that in the short run any and all demand for the passenger train would go away as Congres knew then, and knows now, they are not funding AMTRAK at anywhere near the level required for AMTRAK to present a truly sales worthy product. AMTRAK's continued existance is a testament to the 'RAILROADERS' ability to do the job, no matter how meager the resources. Unless and until Congress decides that AMTRAK will not die and blow away, AMTRAK will always have trouble obtaining anywhere near adequate funding. Our TAX dollars have provided corporate welfare the the road builders and airlines to amouts hundereds of times the 37 Billion that has been allocated to AMTRAK over the 30+ years of its existance. Congress being a political entity will never directly kill AMTRAK as that would be 'bad politics'; however the feel 'starving' AMTRAK and the proclaiming that it is not profitable and will never be profitable hides their aim of killing AMTRAK. AMTRAK is just another spelling of Politics. [/quote]Again sir, a good and most knowlegable statement, I'm envious. - Piouslion
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