You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
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The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people.
One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.
The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.
Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.
We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.
The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.
The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.
We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.