Re: #Why Amtrak is dying when we need it the most

In article <bjiu649u2t9326050vdpgf7c1u16hthori@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Steve <stevencanyon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:39:11 -0500, "SlackJaw" <SlackJaw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> >Steve wrote:
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> >> On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:21:12 -0500, "SlackJaw" <SlackJaw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> wrote:
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> >> > Steve wrote:
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> >> >> > And it needs to buy new rail cars soon. Its Amfleet cars, the
> >> ones >> > recognizable to riders as the old Metroliners, are more
> >> than 30 >> > years old. And the Acela trains, which have been
> >> operating about >> > eight years, have about a million miles on them.
> >> >> > 
> >> >> 
> >> >> ...and yet it's all they need.. why should they have more.. nobody
> >> >> rides the damned things anyway. 
> >> > 
> >> > I would, if they were cheap, convenient, and clean like Europe's
> >> > rail system.
> >> 
> >> But they're not..  and they're not very fast either...
> >
> >And more expensive than a plane ticket. But it is run by the
> >government, what do you expect?
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> 
> I expect it to be wasteful and useless....

if the free market could provide the service you wouldnt need the
government to

speaking of free market how do you feel about five dollar a gallon
gasoline?
going to demand congress intervene?

arf meow arf - raggedy ann and andy for president and vice
limp and spineless lint for brains is  better yet and nice
then rueing pair of shrub and dick the republican lice
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