the ongoing murdering of Amtrack by the bushgang

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/politics/11amtrak.html


Congressman Adds More Vegetables to Amtrak's Load

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Instead, Congress has told Amtrak to increase sharply the number of carloads it hauls or forgo $8.3 million in additional federal money.

The order, contained in the transportation bill signed by President Bush last month, was inserted late in the process by Representative Joe Knollenberg, an appropriations subcommittee chairman from Michigan. The Detroit businessman who owns the only company that supplies such rail cars happens to be a large donor to Mr. Knollenberg, a Republican, and other Michigan lawmakers.

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But Mr. Knollenberg changed course Friday afternoon. After documents obtained by The New York Times raised questions about lobbying by ExpressTrak and its lawyers to obtain the $8.3 million for Amtrak, Mr. Knollenberg released a statement saying he would work to reverse the legislation.

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For now, however, the provision remains in place. Critics blasted it this week as exactly the type of behavior that has left Amtrak famously dependent on federal handouts. Congress established the railroad in 1971 as a private, for-profit corporation and has intermittently promised company managers a free hand to run it like a business. But lawmakers continue to exercise influence because Amtrak must curry political favor to maintain its subsidy.
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you know us americans could have a wonderful rail system if the republicans would keep their corrupt noses out of it.

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1. Another victim of the "Free Market" LIE babbled by a bunch

of un-educated 30-something-project-manager WASPS about how much better "Privitization" is - BULLSHIT! And History basically supports the fact that "Privitization" leads to all kinds of manipulation of Price and Services (markets) that would result in the People being SCREWED again.