Dem rep: Amtrak needs $117 'billion with a B'

The Hill ^ | May 16, 2015 | Mark Hensch

[jazusamo]

Hey Chaka, have you bothered to check our national debt lately? Investment should come from investors, not taxpayers.

[BenLurkin]

No. All of its problems were fixed in 2009 — as part of the $800 billion (with a B) “stimulus”

[cripplecreek]

I’m going to start demanding ransom from the government or I’m going to start speeding.

[Olog-hai]

If Nixon hadn’t been so far left, he would have deregulated the railroads and then the private companies could have used their own funds to speed up the trains themselves. They were trying during the 50s and 60s, but the regulation and taxation kept piling on.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Most national governments don’t spend that much in an entire year. Is he high?

[spintreebob]

If the customers of Amtrak actually valued it, they would be willing to pay the fare. That they are not willing to pay the fare, but are willing to pay much more than the fare for other things of no obvious value tells us something. It tells us what they think of our money.

[RightGeek]

“If we’re going to have passenger rail, we’re going to need to make it safe and make it efficient,” he told The Billy Penn. OK. Let's just not have passenger rail.

[SkyDancer]

Shook the money Magic 8 Ball to come up with a figure.

[knarf]

OR .... we could just say no and shut it down

I'm SURE DC ... and the USofA could survive without all those worker bees ..... especially that biden guy.

[cripplecreek]

We demand 117 BILLION DOLARS

[Sarah Barracuda]

And Dems are all Douche bags with a Capital D

[scooby321]

Commodore Vanderbilt became the richest man in the World in the 1880's

Is this guy a nut?

You might as well knock down Baltimore and turn it into a Farm

[jazusamo]

If the customers of Amtrak actually valued it, they would be willing to pay the fare.

Well said, dead on the mark.

[Olog-hai]

By “they were trying” I meant the private railroad companies. They had all sorts of high-speed experimental trains, e.g. Talgo/ACF, Train X, even United Aircraft’s Turbotrain, but the federal and state governments kept sucking the life out of those companies and building “infrastructure” of the competing modes.

Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture … — The Naked Communist, Chapter 12

Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. — Communist Manifesto, Chapter 2

We cannot say we weren’t warned, and all this government involvement in “infrastructure” no matter what type it is has to end.

[gov_bean_ counter]

But that would have meant the Northeastern Entitlement Class would have actually have had to be footing the actual cost is operation.

[lowbridge]

“Is he high?”

Nah. Its just that he’s got rich friends standing there on his front porch with their hands out.

[Olog-hai]

How about deregulating it before not having it? Freight rail got some deregulation, but passenger rail’s regulations only keep getting bigger and bigger.

[jazusamo]

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[VanDeKoik]

Amtrak can go Chaka Fattah themselves.

[husky ed]

Chaka Con. Chaka Con

Ed