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As Kay Bailey Hutchinson has said, "either have a nationwide Amtrak or none at all." That is the politics of the Amtrak, the Northeast Corridor, and the long distance routes. There is no support in Congress for the Northeast Corridor or in California lines in the rest of the nation unless there is some form of rail passenger routes elsewhere. No where in the world does any form of passenger transporation earn a profit, all have government subsidies. The day Amtrak dies will be the day there will be a huge bottleneck of traffic in the northeast. As one senator has noted, to replace the NEC the government will have to spend $87 billion to upgrade and expand I-95... As it turns out, Amtrak is cheap and we would be fooli***o eliminate its funding.... If you want to balance the budget, look at the four biggest government programs to find the cuts: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Defense, in that order.....
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