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What does Bush and parts of the US not understand about Amtrak and the national passenger rail?
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Actually a national passenger rail system and homeland security have a lot in common from a political perspective. Consider Kay Hutchinson's comments(a Republican) about supporting Amtrak, but ONLY if it's a national system. Homeland Security was supposed to protect the most vulnerable targets, but by the time the politicians got done scaring the public and dividing up the pork, small towns in Iowa are better prepared than large northeastern cities. Terrorists want to kill LOTS of people, not derail a Hazmat tankcar in the middle of nowhere. And if there were a tax-supported national high speed rail system, Montana wheat farmers would probably want the same frequency of service as the NEC.
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