From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Benjamin Kubelsky  wrote:   
      
   >Not to mention that Amtrak was created BECAUSE the private companies   
   >were going bankrupt running passenger trains, and that service under   
   >Amtrak is in many ways, better than it was before.   
      
   >What do we want to replace corporate welfare? More corporate welfare!!   
      
   The transition from railroad to Amtrak was pretty damn awkward. Vast numbers   
   of railroad employees still in passenger service were laid off and   
   Railroad Retirement Fund took years to get back onto sound footing.   
      
   Congress never thinks about what will happen to Railroad Retirement if   
   Amtrak workers are all fired, failing to have learned any lessons   
   from 1971.   
      
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