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

"mariposas rand mair fheal" <mair_fheal@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| In article <3amu6450hqf894000qfs0ptme7ij9khtpc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| Steve <stevencanyon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| > On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:15:06 -0700, mariposas rand mair fheal
| > <mair_fheal@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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| > >In article <bjiu649u2t9326050vdpgf7c1u16hthori@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
| > > Steve <stevencanyon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| > >
| > >> On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:39:11 -0500, "SlackJaw"
<SlackJaw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| > >> wrote:
| > >>
| > >> >Steve wrote:
| > >> >
| > >> >> On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:21:12 -0500, "SlackJaw" 
<SlackJaw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| > >> >> wrote:
| > >> >>
| > >> >> > Steve wrote:
| > >> >> >
| > >> >> >> > 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?
| > >>
| > >>
| > >> I expect it to be wasteful and useless....
| > >
| > >if the free market could provide the service you wouldnt need the 
government
| > >to
| >
| > A free market would be only to happy to provide a service that paid
| > for itself....
|
| necessary services dont always pay for themselves
| like libraries police streets fire city parks

%%%% Amtrack is not a necessary service.

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the 
name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program

until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how
it 
happened." -- Norman Thomas, American socialist



|
| > >speaking of free market how do you feel about five dollar a gallon 
gasoline?
| > >going to demand congress intervene?
| >
| > I've already sent letters in an attempt to get more oil production and
| > more nuclear power plants started here in the USA.
|
| there would be no nuclear power plants
| if not for congress intervening with price-anderson
|
| as for public lands
| its up to the owners to decide how to use the land
| that is the free market
|
|
| your problem is the free market is working as it should be
| and you dont like it
|
| 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
| call me desdenova seven seven seven seven seven seven