From: heller@deepsoft.com   
      
   At Wed, 9 Nov 2016 20:18:52 -0600 Larry Sheldon  wrote:   
      
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   > On 11/9/2016 16:06, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > > What will happen to Amtrak as a result of the election, Trump as   
   > > president and a Republican congress?  Republicans hate Amtrak.   
   > >   
   >   
   > Actually, what we hate is pissing money down gopher holes.   
   >   
   > Our guess is, if anybody wanted Amtrak, some entrepreneur would be   
   > making a million at it.   
      
   No, actually it does not work like that. Sometimes the "Free Enterprise"   
   system simply fails. In fact the "Free Enterprise" / "Private Sector" is   
   *notoriously* bad at any kind of infrastructure. *Non* of the infrastructure   
   *anywhere* in the world and at any time was ever build by the Private Sector   
   alone. Much of the construction of the existing *freight* railroad   
   infrastructure was funded by the federal government (in the form of land   
   grants in the latter part of the 1800s).  The *entire* highway system is   
   funded by governments at the local, state, and federal level.  Many airports   
   started out as millitary air bases.  The US Airforce has been the primary   
   training ground for pilots.   
      
      
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