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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by greyhounds You know, this is a broken drawbridge. A part has to be specially made to repair it. That's all it is. Drawbridges fail to open/close on a somewhat ongoing bases and require repair. A labor union chose to make this in to a political issue in an effort to get their hands further into the taxpayers' pockets. I don't know why anyone thinks Amtrak should have a perpetual claim on the Federal Treasury - the people who ride those trains should pay for the trains. They shouldn't be looking to other folks to pick up part of their transportation costs. As to the $40 million-- 1) It's mostly from private donations 2) It's less than Clinton spent in 1996 [/quote] Busboy- No labor union wrote this story. It was a newspaper writer if you read it carefully. The BLET merely posted it on their site as news. Second, like it or not the NEC serves a vital transportation need. If we want to have it we should expect to pay for it. As to the costs of the inauguration, I'd love to see the details of how private donations were used to pay the salaries and overtime of the hundreds of law enforcement folks from Federal and local levels who were providing security. I'd love to see how you figure that the costs were "mostly" borne by private donors. LC
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