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[quote user="daveklepper"] IN 90% OF THE WORLD'S CASES, PASSENGER RAIL IS NOT A COMMERCIAL BUSINESS. [/quote] Yep!  The United States is a different culture. So what! The argument that we should be like the other countries, with which we may not have a lot in common, and some of which may be hostile to our national interests, is akin to saying my family needs to spend itself into bankruptcy because the family two doors down is doing it. I have evolved to the point where I favor privatizing Amtrak.  It is a commercial enterprise, albeit government sponsored, that competes with private airlines, bus companies, etc. Private, competitive enterprises do a better job of using scarce resources to achieve their ends. If the executives and managers don't get off their backsides, they lose their jobs. If government employees don;t get off their backsides, what happens to them?  In most instances nothing. Or they hire more staff to figure out what needs to be done.  And when they don't get off their backsides, what happens to them?  Nothing! If Amtrak was the proper response to the passenger rail problem in the United States, should the government also have bailed out Pan American Airlines, People Air Express, Trailways, United States Lines, etc.?  Other than for political reasons, why did the federal government have an obligation to bail out passenger rail?
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