From: nhrfmhrf@yahoo.com

I personally have no idea what Trump's opinion of Amtrak is.
Republicans generally dislike Amtrak, but not all of them.
Trump is certainly not a traditional Republican.  The traditional Republican
establishment does not like him at all.

"Robert Heller"  wrote in message
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> At Wed, 9 Nov 2016 20:18:52 -0600 Larry Sheldon 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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