From: jgrove24@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:35:46 AM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > At a Congressional hearing, it was explained that the military had to cut   
   back hot meals in favor of MRE in order to have the money to pay for meals for   
   Amtrak passengers, and boosting the federal debt of $13 trillion.   
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   > That, in reality, the MRE substitution had nothing to do with budgets and   
   was a separate issue didn't matter.   
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   > http://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/07/09/amtrak-foe-mica-meets-hi   
   -match-in-john-robert-smith/   
      
   "Mica railed against Amtrak's "Soviet-style operations" and the money losses   
   on food service aboard the trains and asked Smith if he should "go back and   
   tell that mother [of the soldier not getting hot breakfasts], 'You know, we   
   need to put this money    
   into Amtrak; we can't take any cuts out of Amtrak.'"   
      
   To which John Robert Smith firmly replied: "That's a false choice,   
   Congressman."   
      
   And he's right. Additional revenues would solve all these problems, but that's   
   something Mica and others in his party refuse to countenance. Caught in a   
   never-ending cycle of budget cuts, Mica himself has made some pretty   
   devastating choices, like his    
   vote to replace defense cuts with cuts to health care for children."   
      
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