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Amtrak Munchies: Rail Service Loses $833.8 million In Decade on Snacks
Amtrak rail service lost $84.5 million alone on its food and beverage services in 2011, and $833.8 million over 10 years. “It has never broken even on these services,” wrote Heritage. In the report, Heritage concluded that for every $6.80 Washington steals from the taxpayer, it spends $10. The rest is borrowed. It appears as though Amtrak and the federal government will now be forced to bring TSA onboard Amtrak trains, not to dissuade terrorism, but to watch over its own employees who seemingly finger snacks on the lowdown.
Joe Biden’s favorite mode of transportation – perhaps because it smells the most like austerity – has been suffering, as rail lines have been closing across the country in 2012. Amtrak’s latest move will see it stop service on all routes that are 750 miles or fewer in length one year from now unless state governments pay to discontinue service.
For example, the four-day-a-week service between Indianapolis and Chicago are on the chopping block. 35,000 people rode that line last year. Discontinued also would be service from San Diego to Santa Barbara.
Over the past twenty years Federal spending has increased 71 percent faster than inflation. Heritage indicated that if spending is allowed to continue at the current pace, federal spending will reach $5.5 trillion in a decade.
The one good thing to come from the US losing the one transportation service that has been married to the Industrialization Age across western civilization will be that there is one less place where TSA can molest the populations of each state.
The current spending crisis, Heritage wrote, does not even include the oncoming program and spending changes of Obamacare, the USNHS, which will cost $1.7 trillion in ten years. The proposed taxes for Obamacare are expected to raise only $836 billion between 2013 and 2022.”
Heritage offered up some examples of government inefficiency:
- the year 2010 saw the federal government cost itself nearly $1.7 billion to maintain 77,700 underused or unused buildings.
- the US Navy bought 450,000 gallons of biofuels for $12 million, $27 per gallon, to conduct exercises to showcase the fuel and bring it closer toward commercialization. It is the largest biofuel purchase ever made by the government.
- Department of Agriculture spent in 2011 $2 million dollars for an intern program, from which only one intern was hired.
- The IRS stored 22,486 pieces of unused furniture in a warehouse for $862,000 per year.
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2012-10-17 01:41:08
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