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My .02 Amtrak needs serious reformation and realistic funding. Any body who thinks that the airlines and highway transport industries haven't or aren't receiving huge subsidies is living in talk radio dreamland or just not looking at the real picture. If I didn't own a car would the government be justified in using my taxes to build highways? Yes and it is just as warranted in JUDICIOUSLY investing in rail passenger service as well. It's an investment in the future of your country, an idea that the rest of the world evidently understands better then we do. Viable rail service can be as vital to modern society as any mile of crowded highway or bloated airline. NOW, all you modern industrialized countries that have gotton that way without govenrment spending on transportation infrastructure raise your hands! Hmmm, I don't see anyone, do you? <br /> <br />Now- has Amtrak been poorly managed? -sadly, yes of course. Does congress and the administration have culpability? -always has. Should we privatise intercity rail? <br />( wew that's worked so well in Britain)- only if we mandate minimum service standards, reward good performance and fund what is needed to create and maintain the needed physical plant. BUT please spare us the half-baked mandates and the two-faced demands for "accountability" from congress. It's like Saddam Hussein lecturing the Israelis on their human rights violations.
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