Going to stay away from the CSRM issue, but in terms of private industry and passenger rail, learn your history. If it were up to private industry, there would be almost no passenger rail. Government didn't drive companies like the Pacific Electric and Key System out of business, aside from facilitating in the building of new roads. They stopped making money as more people went to cars and trucks and busses sold and operated by private industry.

I work across a wide variety of industries. Big business is some of the most wasteful, inefficient and morally corrupt enterprises in the United States. Brilliant ideas are killed because it was "not invented here" and stupid pet projects of investors and top management get millions if not billions poured into them to go nowhere.