Amtrak Wastefulness Returns to New Orleans
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In a flood (pun intended) of pomp and circumstance, the first Amtrak train has arrived in New Orleans since the levees broke.
The train carried 29 passengers.
But on the bright side, Amtrak officials expect that number to increase tomorrow -- to 30 passengers.
How much of Amtrak's billion-dollar annual taxpayer subsidy is going to this propaganda exercise?
Is restoring a perpetually unprofitable, government-run railroad's barely-used service to a disaster-stricken area really a priority? Was Michael Brown secretly appointed Amtrak's new chief?
Actually, Amtrak was probably the only government agency he couldn't have made any worse than it already was.
The train carried 29 passengers.
But on the bright side, Amtrak officials expect that number to increase tomorrow -- to 30 passengers.
How much of Amtrak's billion-dollar annual taxpayer subsidy is going to this propaganda exercise?
Is restoring a perpetually unprofitable, government-run railroad's barely-used service to a disaster-stricken area really a priority? Was Michael Brown secretly appointed Amtrak's new chief?
Actually, Amtrak was probably the only government agency he couldn't have made any worse than it already was.
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Posted by KipEsquire on
8 October 2005
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