[equalitybeforethelaw]

Who knew passenger train travel was a growth industry? Shoosh, our financial worries are over. Yeah!!!

[Willie Green]

Who knew passenger train travel was a growth industry?

Well there were some of us who saw that it was predictable.
Rising fuel costs adversely affect both automotive and airline travel. Then toss in the added inconveniences of traffic congestion, road rage, airline security and general belt tightening in the economy... then the competitive advanges of passenger rail start looking better and better to the traveling public.
Amtrak heads for ridership record in 2010

Shoosh, our financial worries are over. Yeah!!!

No... not really...
Investment in energy efficient transportation infrastructure certainly helps, but we have structural economic problems that go far deeper than that.
We need to reverse the idiotic trade policies that are sucking the lifeblood out our nation and put an absolute end to the political class pursuit of a dumbed-down, impoverished, low-wage, low-benefit, suvservient population.
The GOP has become merely the twin clone of the 'Rat poverty pimps.
We need to place a revenue tariff on all imported goods to replenish our Treasury while also lowering other forms of domestic taxation to bring our wealth creating industries and jobs back to America. Unless we reverse the trade policies that undermine our domestic economy, our political "leaders" are leading us over the financial cliff.