TrainsMag.com Reader Poll – November 14, 2003

[MikeSanta]

Those clowns make Union Pacific look respectable. All UP does is try to scam Lionel for making UP trains. Norfolk Southern hassles "foamers"(us, railfans) and BNSF does genetic testing on its employees. That leaves the Canadian railroads and the short lines, I guess.

[Anonymous]

O.K. Who thinks That CSX Is really low on the favorite railroad lists Right Now. I mean this totally sucks For those employees, I personally think that the 1,000,000 Should go to the workers and I think other people would agree

[brilondon]

The Super Bowl tickets are for the most part gifts for their customers who without customers more than 1000 people would be gone as the entire company/corporation would shut its doors. Also they never talk about the people they have to hire over the summer when track maintenance is at its peak and most of the hires are temporary hires to facilitate the maintinance if the infrastructure to keep the railroad running.

[Anonymous]

THE POINT IS SIMPLE, DOWN SIZE THE WHOLE WORKING CLASS, AND THEY WILL BUY MORE PRODUCTS. THAT IS BUSH ECONOMICS PERIOD

[kenneo]

I would have liked to voted for Monday and Wednesday, but the bald faced greed shown in the CSX layoff and ticket purchase just fries me. Economists tell us that it was the railroads and the middle class that built America and when the auto industry came about, it was the RR, middle class and autos. It is the middle class that has historically kept the consumer economy alive, and now with all of the dumbsizing in all of industry along with the moving of manufacturing jobs off-shore, that economic engine is fast going away. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

[Anonymous]

I doult very much if Bush had anything to do with it. It is just plain bad management from a greedy little person CEO trying to make points to the stockholders. I am sure some of the tickets will go for ATTA BOYS and Large customers.(Shippers) His timeing is not very good. BAD PR. I hope it backfires on his BUTT. John P

[Anonymous]

After reading about football tickets for CSX brass and layoffs, added to Walmart exploiting the third world for cutthroat pricing, I fully understand why we are the most hated people on earth.
Ken on the left coast

[Anonymous]

This sort of behaviour is disgraceful. We get it just the same in England. The government sold off our national railway sytem to private enterprise about a decade ago and it has basically never worked since. Almost all of us here want it to be nationalised again but we are told that the polls show that we don't. Why is it that I never meet anyone who wants it to remain private!!!!?

Ian

[BaltACD]

QUOTE: Originally posted by atsfan1

QUOTE: Originally posted by DennisHeld

This is exactly the problem with corporate America now days. I'm surprised that the headlines weren't "CSX cuts 1000 jobs, buys 1 million bucks of Super Bowl tickets and gives CEO and CFO 1 million in bonuses. I don't mind Exec's getting a good salary. But come on. Just the perks they get are more than the Average Joe makes in total wages. Maybe Bush can give them another tax break so they can make ends meet!

I don't know about the CEO's but Bush's tax break helped me and I'm an average working stiff.

The bigger question is...With the Bu***ax plan and other anti-worker laws and actions....how long will you be an 'average working stiff'. Stiff you may become, but average and working, as we have previously known it in the US, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.