-=> Quoting Ken Freeman to Lance Hillhouse <=-
 KF> Glad someone did protest, really. They seem to have a big
 KF> problem though, when they decide that a route isn't self
 KF> sustaining and decide to cut it, and then all of a sudden
 KF> someone from Washington comes up with just enough money to
 KF> keep the route open for another 6 months so that a blue
 KF> ribbon panel can study it some more.
        This is to be expected for any service which operates
on government handouts.  It is political anytime you have
government subsidies, and those who say there should be no
politics in Amtrak operations avoid the issue that all
government assistance is politics.
        This argument goes back to the pleading for federal
assistance for "internal improvements" in the early 1800s.
It was canals and the "national road" then, but it will
always be political.
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