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Saturday, March 14, 2009


Joe Biden offers up $1.3 Billion of your dollars to support an anachronistic mode of transportation because he thinks it's cute.
Vice President Joe Biden continued the administration's rollout of the recently passed economic stimulus package Friday, highlighting $1.3 billion in federal funding for Amtrak.

Vice President Joe Biden called Amtrak "an absolute national treasure and necessity."

The money for the rail service, which carried almost 29 million passengers in the previous fiscal year, will go primarily to infrastructure repair and improvement.
$1.3 Billion for 29 million passengers? So that's almost $50 of gub'ment handout per passenger on top of what they paid for their tickets. And have you ever priced an Amtrak ticket? You would think it would be a little bit cheaper than a plane ticket, but it is not. It's just 10 to 50 hours slower.



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