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Posted on 03/13/2009 11:32:43 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Joe Biden continued the administration's rollout of the recently passed economic stimulus package Friday, highlighting $1.3 billion in federal funding for Amtrak.
The money for the rail service, which carried almost 29 million passengers in the previous fiscal year, will go primarily to infrastructure repair and improvement.
The $787 billion stimulus plan includes a total of $8 billion for improvements in rail service, a crucial investment to help ease traffic in the congested northeast corridor running from Boston, Massachusetts to Washington, Biden argued.
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Amtrak a treasure? It’s only function is to deplete the treasure of the US. It should be required to operate at a profit. If it can’t, then it should be done away with.
He rides Atrak to work everyday, I hear.
Everyman Joe.
a few years ago it was revealed that every AMTRAK ticket was subsidized $39 by American taxpayers ...
SELL AMTRAK!
shezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
“Amtrak a treasure?”
Yep, it should be a buried treasure.
It will be the subject of the 3rd National Treasure movie. LOL!!!
“...but we [shouldn’t] give additional money and reward incompetency and inefficiency. If that’s what the stimulus is about, we’re in a whole lot worse trouble.””
The irony of a Republican Senator complaining about rewards for incompetency and inefficiency is too delicious!
Aolumnist for the News Journal—Delaware’s biggest newspaper—just figured out last week that the taxpayers havie been paying for Joe Biden’s train tickets!
Biden, Tom Carper, Mike Castle—travel everyday to DC from Wilmington, DE.
On your dime and mine.
“It should be required to operate at a profit.”
Ummm, like the highways and airports and seaports do; like the rest of the government did under Bush, or Reagan...that kind of profit?
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The “Chia Pet” announces money for his “Pet Project”.
We have a one stop Amtrak on ribbon rail here from Harrisburg/Philly. Rode it once and it is great. I thought they built it for me. 3 cars were almost empty.
Unless I am mistaken (and I may be), Amtrak is a passenger service, why shouldn’t they be required to operate at a profit like the Post Office?
How do you water an 0bama Chia Pet?
Put it on the floor and let the dog water it.
Plus it was revealed recently that the trains Biden would take bacjk and forth often had to delay their departure to wait just for him (when he was delayed). They did with made-up excuses and did it regardless of how it inconvenienced the other passengers.
“He rides Amtrak to work everyday I hear.”
Biden’s train left the tracks years ago.
Why should we subsidize something that so few people use?
As for the comparison to the Hwy system: the hwy system was put in as a way to rapidly move troops.
As for the comparison to the Air Traffic Control system: A necessity to keep thousands of planes from hitting each other in the air and on the ground.
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To be consistent, truckers should have to turn a profit after paying tolls for use of the Interstate Highway system; airlines should have to turn a profit after paying for the airports and the air traffic control system. Personally I'm fine with that, but if the government is going to provide huge subsidies to transportation by roads and air, then it doesn't seem reasonable to insist that rail transport compete against those things without subsidies.