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Katrina 1, Amtrak 0
Katrina 1, Amtrak 0
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Tharmeni
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July 2003
From: Southwestern Florida
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Katrina 1, Amtrak 0
Posted by
Tharmeni
on Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:24 PM
An AP story by Andrew Taylor, just posted on Yahoo, discusses cuts the White House may propose to offset the costs of Katrina and, yep, my friends, right at the top is "Amtrak subsidies". Anyone else tired of hearing how we're going to balance the budget and solve the world's woes by cutting aid to our ailing passenger train system?
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TomDiehl
Member since
February 2001
From: Poconos, PA
3,948 posts
Posted by
TomDiehl
on Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:33 PM
And I'm willing to bet that there's no mention of cutting subsidies to oil companies to encourage them to look for more oil deposits.
So they can make more money.
Smile, it makes people wonder what you're up to. Chief of Sanitation; Clowntown
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daveklepper
Member since
June 2002
20,096 posts
Posted by
daveklepper
on Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:34 PM
Suppose New York City had to be evacuated or Chicago or Philadelphia?
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Anonymous
Member since
April 2003
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Posted by
Anonymous
on Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:47 PM
They discussed the Fed's looking to trim for the relief $$ and our Congressmen recommened the transportation bill be held off for one year. I somewhat agree, there is an awful lot of pork in the bill. I can see keeping major hiway infastructure, and by all means leave AMTRAK in, I think these storms are proof of a need for any rail/passenger network, though they can cut that little part of the rail to trails, and the pork bridge and parks stuff...
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