 |
Re: Trump's Budget means end to AMTRAK long distance trains
Author: HUTCH 7.62
Date: 03-17-2017 - 19:27
Sgt. Joe Friday Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Look, I am generally on the right politically, but
> it makes me cringe when I hear people like talk
> show host Michael Medved fulminate against "stupid
> choo choo trains." In an age of $4 trillion
> budgets and a $20 trillion national debt, Amtrak's
> measly $1.5 billion subsidy is a rounding error in
> the bigger scheme of things, and spending so much
> time trying to kill it comes off as petty and
> small minded, not to mention making one's self
> look innumerate.
>
> No form of public transportation operates without
> some kind of subsidy from Uncle Sam. The air
> traffic control system and public airports require
> many billions of dollars more than Amtrak every
> year. What do you think an airplane ticket would
> cost if the private airlines had to pay for their
> own "disptachers" (air traffic controllers) and
> "stations" (airports)?
-------------------------------------------------------
> Look, I am generally on the right politically, but
> it makes me cringe when I hear people like talk
> show host Michael Medved fulminate against "stupid
> choo choo trains." In an age of $4 trillion
> budgets and a $20 trillion national debt, Amtrak's
> measly $1.5 billion subsidy is a rounding error in
> the bigger scheme of things, and spending so much
> time trying to kill it comes off as petty and
> small minded, not to mention making one's self
> look innumerate.
>
> No form of public transportation operates without
> some kind of subsidy from Uncle Sam. The air
> traffic control system and public airports require
> many billions of dollars more than Amtrak every
> year. What do you think an airplane ticket would
> cost if the private airlines had to pay for their
> own "disptachers" (air traffic controllers) and
> "stations" (airports)?
