Typical liberal response to any budget cut threat is: "You
can't possibly cut (fill in the blank).
It’s way too important. Besides
it's not very much money by itself."
As Everett Dirksen once said, a billion here, a billion there, pretty
soon you're talking real money. We are
borrowing 35 to 40 cents on the dollar of Federal spending. The right answer is, we have to cut
EVERYTHING WE CAN. This includes the
sacred cow of Amtrak. The Amtrak subsidy
budget is 1.45 billion dollars. The romance
of passenger trains is not worth it.
http://www.planning.org/features/2012/federalbudget.htm
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