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September 20, 2005
The Empire Has No Clothes
Another view on Amtrak funding.
When a free-marketeer presents Amtrak as an example of government waste, I have to wonder what they think of the Interstate Highway System. This is also a government program and the cost has been in the trillions. Toll roads with electronic payment systems may have their place, but where would the United States be if Eisenhower had decided to wait for private enterprise to build the highway system? It is the same place we are headed because of the endless wail for privatizing everything in the past 30 years. Commercial healthcare has not brought us universal coverage. Commercial energy has lowered standards but not price. Commercial transportation needs bailout after bailout. America continues to suffer under this delusion.
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Posted on September 20, 2005 07:39 PM by amtrak126.
Filed in Travel Blog under amtrak.
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Pete,
Your topic of the Utopia broadband communication network touched on several issues that rabid conservatives don't like to admit too. Maybe they like the bail out by us citizens of the Savings and Loan scandal, or the plight of our airlines, or the diverting of employee's pension funds to government responsibily and letting the CEO's have their golden parachutes.
Maybe they want to return to the good old days when the Oil companie got a depletion allowance for the oil they extracted from the earth.
Posted by: Calvin Hansen at September 22, 2005 07:57 PM
