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[quote user="henry6"][quote user="Samantha"] Some have argued that the $1.3 billion spent annually on Amtrak is a drop in the bucket.  True!  But one of the reasons that the U.S. has a large debt, much of which is lodged overseas, is because of the argument that another billion won't make much difference.  The federal deficit will never be fixed as long as this argument holds sway.  [/quote]So take a tablespoon of water out of Lake Michigan and that drops the water level how dangerously low?  The monies for Amtrak should not be the sole part of the transportation budget to be penelized nor be spotlighted in an overall budget of waste and over inflated programs that gratify the few.[/quote]The federal transportation budget, as well as the whole federal budget, is being reviewed.  And it is likely to be reviewed even more so next year.  Amtrak's funding is being reviewed because it is seaking a larger increase, per cent wise, than other transport segments, while carrying less than four tenths of one per cent of the traveling public.A tablespoon analogy does not even begin to address the issue of the proper funding for Amtrak or any other segment of our transportation system.
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