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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by brilondon Correct me if I am wrong but aren't the Fed's trying not to fund AMTRAK at all. Amtrak has to go hat in hand and grovel for its megre funding requests every year. Here in Canada we get all gaga over any additional money our government wishes to give it. It is planning to give VIA Rail a bone to the tune of 800 million CDN dollars over the next five years. Unfortunatly that is the ramblings of a senile old man who is our present king, I mean Prime Minister, who when he finally gets his butt out of our government will be sadly disapointed when the hier apparent Paul Martin come in and reverses everything Johnny Cruton has screwed up. [/quote] Yes, that's the gist of it, but as with all things Republican, there is substantially more to the story than meets the eye. There are some lucrative markets in the Amtrak fold, and the Prez has some friends in low places (hereinafter refered toas the"cronies") who'd like to get their hands on them. Hence ~Amtrak~ A "BROKEN SYSTEM" needs to be done away with.. But, there are sizeable public owned assets in Amtrak, that just wouldn't look right handing those assets over to the "cronies" unless (my take) some popular sentiment can be built to make "Joe six pak" see a silver lining in doing so. Enter "High speed rail service coming to a town near you" but with the deal structured with so many outs, and no strings attached to the cronies, that when the pie in the sky fails to meet proforma, the deal get trashed due to "local and public failure to fulfill their end of the bargain", but that comes to form a few years down the road, with Amtrak a distant memory, with the valued assets long since transfered into the hands of the "no strings attached" cronies, amid blubberings of "Don't you dare blame the cronies for the failures of the local and public sector" And BLAMMO , the cronies have a nice shortline passenger railroad that is as profitable as it is exclusive.
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