On Monday, July 21, 2014 10:34:36 PM UTC-4, Glen Labah wrote:   
      
   > If you can find some other reason why the Koch Brothers behave as they    
   > do, I would love to hear it.   
      
   Generally speaking, folks who oppose Amtrak and transit do so for ideology,   
   greed, and power.  Not logic nor facts.   
      
   These folks have got the notion locked in their heads that rail public   
   transit--local and Amtrak--is somehow evil and must be eliminated.  They   
   believe it represents an enormous drain on the Federal deficit (people used to   
   come to this newsgroup and say    
   so).  Ironically, they have no problem with the evil guvmint operating   
   highways, toll facilities, or airports--no call to sell off and privatize any   
   of those operations.   
      
   As another example, in Pennsylvania, liquor/wine stores are run by the state,   
   a legacy of the depression.  The state makes a profit off of their sales which   
   goes into the state treasury.  The anti-government crowd desperately wants to   
   sell off the stores,   
    and make all sorts of FALSE claims about the situation.  The actual bottom   
   line is that the state would end up losing money--after all, store profits now   
   kept by the state would then be kept by private businesses.   
      
      
   Another aspect is greed and power.  You would think if someone builds up a $1   
   million fortune they'd be happy.  But no, they then want $10 million, then   
   $100 million.  They begin to see their wealth as an _entitlement_ that they   
   deserve, and they    
   vehemently object to anything that gets in their way, or that they disagree   
   with.   
      
   It's scary--these folks want to turn the clock back to the robber barron era   
   100 years ago, which they think was good for the country.   
      
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