Bush wants to get rid of Amtrak

Ok, President Bush has never been a friend of passenger rail and Amtrak. Year after year, Amtrak had to fight for enough money just to stay alive and continue operating. The situation in the U.S. is no different from anywhere else - passenger rail services depend on government subsidies. But then, so do all other modes of transportation. After all, who’s paying for all those roads and airports? Who’s paying the traffic police’s and air traffic controllers’ salaries?

Now, President Bush has proposed to cut funding for Amtrak to nothing in his budget proposal for FY 2006. Yes, that is $ 0. He prefers to continue to spend a pile of money for the war in Iraq. Does that make sense? I don’t think so. Do you?

Posted in: Uncategorized | February 23, 2005 10:16 am

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Anonymous, on December 20, 2005 @ 1:50 pm

Amtrak costs too much. It is an agency that gets its 1 billion each year and hemridges 2 billion each year or even more. It is a big government boondoggle. The sooner that Slamtrak is put out of its missery the better it will be for the tax-payers in this country. It is always late. The trains are filthy dirty. They stink. The food from a prison vending machine is ten times better than on a Slamtrak train. Let it rest folks. Get rid of Slamtrak.