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Amtrak reform council should be liquidated

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James Welcome to the realization that our Government LIES. It's the whole "second agenda" thing in living color, and you don't have to tune in "The x-files" to see it in action. It's everywhere!! Whether you are speaking of the "progenitor" of injustice then called "Manifest Destiny", or the current buzz word of "The Greater Common Good", or the evolving term of "Globalization" they are all just wimpy Ivy league "PC" terms to cover for the fact that someone is going to get screwed, in the "bigger picture" With said picture painted so as to enlist popular support of people too lazy to peer under the surface of the spin piped into their livingrooms on the 10 o'clock news. As a short side note, remember when the economy was booming, and the "buzz" was that we must open our borders to starving latino's shackled to poverty, and let them undermine the wage rates here in their queest for survival? And if you did not agree, you were deemed a racist? You think they are starving any less today? You think WTC is the only reason why no one cares anymore? Bahhh!! The real deal was that the economy was booming, like it had not in 30 years, and the laws of supply and demand were about to swoop to the favor of the wage earner, and permit a lot of lost ground to finally be made up, at the level of the middleclass wage earner, unless something drastic (like plundering the labor market with cheap labor) was done. There is your second agenda, complete with a "PC" coverstory of "If you don't endorse this concept, you are "the ugly 'R' word", plain and simple. Along these lines, I think the contributing editor to trains magazine has hit it square on the head with his assertion that the way Amtrack was created and conditioned, it was intended as a path to an end to "unburden" the freight railroads with the passenger services no one was supporting with fares, but which also at the time was seen somewhat of a "public utility" to the extent outright elimination or passenger rail would have resulted in an uproar. So, AMTRACK was (IMHO) a burning fuse, or a stall tactic, to get the focus of blame off the otherwise viable railroads. Also (IMHO) I think that with the events of 9/11, Amtrak's future is assured, since however dishonest our elected officials might be in promoting "trojan horse" politics, they are smart enough to realize that you can't hijack a train and crash it into the landmark property of your choice, so it makes a safer alternative to air travel during uncertain times, both from a riders perspective, as well as from a national administrators point of view. Am I saying Bin Laden Inadvertantly saved Amtrak, well,...though I'm no fan of Bin Laden,.. yes That's what I'm saying.
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