Posted on 03/16/2014 11:13:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
Better yet, how about free tickets to everybody who can prove that Obamacare freed them from Job Lock? They have time on their hands are they are all aspiring artists, writers, and poets. They need a place to meet and sing the sweet praises of O’Care. What better place than on the anachronistic, government-subidized, decrepit passenger train system? Nancy Pelosi should be on the inaugural train and personally welcome all the Freed Job Lockers on board.
Something is VERY FISHY about that photo. The train is clean and graffiti-free. The platform is clean and trash-free. The train appears to be MOVING.
I suspect they took this photo in Switzerland and somebody photoshopped “Amtrak California” onto the passenger car.
Free rides for writers but not readers? I call that discrimination! BTW, how do you prove you are a “writer” anyway?
seems me anyone posting on FR is a ‘writer.’ Bring on the ‘free’ rides!
in seriousness tho, this Amtrak story is the exact same story yet to be written of the planned California high-speed rail-to-nowhere, and yet another warning as to why not to fund the high-speed.
They’ll make it up in volume. ;-)
It’s been a while since I rode Amtrak - but I wonder if that would work? The first class section would get narration.
They’re giving only 24 free tickets away - I’m surprised that they aren’t required to turn in their work.
It seems somewhat reminiscent of FDR’s Federal Writers Project.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/intro02.html
This map of AMTRAK routes is part of the reason less people are riding. The connection between Jacksonville and New Orleans was closed in the 90s with no plans to reopen it. To go west, passengers must travel north and then west via such tranfers as D.C. and Chicago. No thanks for this Floridian. I used to ride at least once a year to Cal. and Oregon, but no more. Love train travel.
One part of that is really good; the section where the living ex-slaves are interviewed. Most of them didn't think badly of it and even looked back to it as the good old days. Something the current racist leaders do not want widely known. Having to call all those ex-slaves "uncle Toms" might not be a good selling point for their pocketbooks.
Trains will be twice as loud?
Hey! I’m a writer. I just filled out the application, why not?
Lots of writers in NY.
Check out the Amtrak bus connection through Bakersfield to Vegas. The buses have good wifi now.
That’s the Lux Bus right?
No, regular Amtrak service. I see LA-Vegas is direct, not through Bakersfield. $55 to ride in comfort.
They already offer free rides, just give the conductor a case of beer. They must not monitor ticket sales and riders as most businesses would be required to do.
Dude, can you send the links for the LA vegas direct? And is the 55 bux for the Amtrak train or by another bus company?
Ha ha—and those are just the writers in Brooklyn!
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