Amtrak's new Logo
I’ll bet that one of Fomney’s kids could run Amtrak & get it into the black!!!
Willie needs to eat more cheeseburgers!
Just to see what it was like, I took Amtrak from Oakland, Ca to Los Angeles a couple of months back. Really no complaints other than it takes ELEVEN HOURS to get there! The cheeseburgers are in plastic bags and the clerk microwaves them for you. If Amtrak is claiming these turds in a bag cost them more than $16 apiece, someone is taking a huge payoff. You can buy a box of eight of them at Costco for less than $10! Amtrak, USPS, all the same deal. Cradle to grave workforce that’s overpaid and underworked.
Only Amtrak could lose money selling food on a train.
And Chevy Volt costs what? somethign like $140,000 and sells for $40K
And Welfare spends $100,000 to give away $30,000 in ‘benefits’ (or the equivalent of one full-time government worker making $70K for every family on welfare getting $30K)
now THAT’s good government!
Thanks for posting this article.
“...$9.50 to buy a cheeseburger on Amtrak, but the cost to taxpayers is $16.15. Riders pay $2.00 for a Pepsi, but each of these sodas costs the U.S. Treasury $3.40. “
I see the problem. And solution.
AMTRAK meet CHICK-FIL-A. Their food is better and much cheaper.
If you know the author MM is million (thousand thousand). He needs to change the headline.
Anything the US Gov't touches turns to crap. (They're actively hollowing-out and destroying the US Military, now.)
Maybe they should subcontract to Chick-fil-A...
The Moochelle and Bloomey should be happy!..........
Amtrak's new Logo
“By the 1960s, the communal, automatic soda fountain was a ubiquitous presence in Soviet grocery stores and eateries. The machines dispensed carbonated tap water: one kopeck for a glass of plain, three if you took it with a shot of syrup, all served in communal glasses. “Getting free soda out of the machines became a national sport. There were many ways to do it: coin on a fishing line, the fake-coin maneuver, and the most primitive and surprisingly effective method of all—simply hitting it hard in the right spot…. All in all, it was an ethical as well as an hygienic disaster.” —from Made in Russia
http://fuckyeahsovietrussia.tumblr.com/post/21186942801/ibeching-by-the-1960s-the-communal-automatic
Pepsi was a VERY early Soviet enthusiast!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do ya' like that logo???
Haha....
And yet the highway roadsides are packed to the gills with people who have figured out how to profitably sell you a cheeseburger for four bucks.
Willie Green would be proud.
How in blazes do you lose money selling food to a captive audience? Jack up the price, they ain’t goin anywhere.
I know someone who does contract work for Amtrak. It’s an amazing world there. There is an ginormous amount of resistance to doing ANYTHING that differs from what they are used to doing. That makes it very difficult to implement streamlining or cost efficiency measures.
Amtrak I am afraid will never make money unless there is a free hand to fire slackers and lean out the work force until you do have people willing to accept changes that improve efficiency.
I know someone who does contract work for Amtrak. It’s an amazing world there. There is an ginormous amount of resistance to doing ANYTHING that differs from what they are used to doing. That makes it very difficult to implement streamlining or cost efficiency measures.
Amtrak I am afraid will never make money unless there is a free hand to fire slackers and lean out the work force until you do have people willing to accept changes that improve efficiency.
But if we only had a bigger subsidy, we could finally have the resources to run a profitable service.
Three forty for a can of pop?
Relatives of the political elite must own that concession.
They buy soda cans by the hundreds of thousands at about 10 cents a can. Stroke of the pen law of the land and the middleman does not have to do anything but spend the money