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THANK YOU DIRTY LIBS... Amtrak Snack Bars Lost $84.5 Million Last Year; $833 Million In 10 Years

 
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Federal spending over the past 20 years has surged 71 percent faster than inflation, much of it on bloated and wasteful programs and services, including Vice President Joe Biden's favorite mode of travel: Amtrak.

According to the newly revised Heritage Foundation report, "Federal Spending by the Numbers," the rail service lost $84.5 million alone on its food and beverage services in 2011, and $833.8 million over the past 10 years. "It has never broken even on these services," said Heritage.

[link to washingtonexaminer.com]
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Who was the president the other 6 years ??

:dubya:gwdancebushfingdick
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President George W. Bush tried to zero out Amtrak funding in 2005. Nice try Mexican libtard...
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Tried ?? he also tried to find WMD in Iraq !!lol

Wait , Obama also try to cut the deficit in half !!

cruise
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Re: THANK YOU DIRTY LIBS... Amtrak Snack Bars Lost $84.5 Million Last Year; $833 Million In 10 Years
bump FOR TRUTH ABOUT HOW GUBERMINT RUNS THINGS!
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But war must be free, right? Talk about elephant in the debt room.
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bump FOR TRUTH ABOUT HOW GUBERMINT RUNS THINGS!
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But war must be free, right? Talk about elephant in the debt room.
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War …no war….the fact of the matter is we are broke!!!!!! Cut the waste!
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
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Re: THANK YOU DIRTY LIBS... Amtrak Snack Bars Lost $84.5 Million Last Year; $833 Million In 10 Years
Is there anything the government runs that doesn't cost twice as much for half the service?


"Everything the government touches turns to shit." - Ringo Starr
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Re: THANK YOU DIRTY LIBS... Amtrak Snack Bars Lost $84.5 Million Last Year; $833 Million In 10 Years
And tell me, how much did the roads and freeways earn? Very few toll roads in the US, all taxpayer subsidized.
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Look how much tax you pay for a gallon of gas - it was supposed to take care of that as well as maintenance and was never expected to turn a profit.

I wonder how much of that tax is actually spent on roads?
My guess is NONE
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Re: THANK YOU DIRTY LIBS... Amtrak Snack Bars Lost $84.5 Million Last Year; $833 Million In 10 Years
Yea but to be fair, the government mostly employs corporate types who want to see government services fail, so people will then rally to use the services of corporates whose shares they own.

Just look at that memo leaked from the US nuclear power watch agency which talked about the need to propagate the msg that nuclear power is safe for the benefit of the industry (when as a watchdog they shouldn't do the industry's PR for them), or how Monsanto executives occupy the ranks of the USDA today, or how banksters occupy the fed and treasury. Absolutely clear conflicts of interest.

I just can't wait for the day when an ex fedex chairman who owns half the stocks of the company starts heading USPS, only to suddenly see it failing miserably because "its the government".
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That's what happens when you believe corporations are people.
CORRUPTION and BOTH parties feed at the corporate trough.
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bump FOR TRUTH ABOUT HOW GUBERMINT RUNS THINGS!
 Quoting: DL


But war must be free, right? Talk about elephant in the debt room.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25675509


War …no war….the fact of the matter is we are broke!!!!!! Cut the waste!
 Quoting: YaRight


This is just a way they turn us against each other, so we the people are to blame, but not the real robbers. Cause why talk about what the 1% of waste when the 99% of waste is in military and fake wars on terror. And they don't steal your soul when they take for trains and shit, but when they take from you and kill a child with that money and it cost so much more, that takes your soul, they do it in your name. Your a distraction. I call. bsflag
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Yeppers, 20 years, under how many presidents and parties????

BUT, the biggest part of the picture you have missed is the mention of "surging gains against inflation" and none of these presidential holders have had real inflation measured as the real cost of most things affecting, directly, what you are reporting is not there.
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bump FOR TRUTH ABOUT HOW GUBERMINT RUNS THINGS!
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But war must be free, right? Talk about elephant in the debt room.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25675509


Sine you're totally off subject, why don't we compare defense spending to education, health care, welfare, transportation, pensions etc...
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Can liberals run anything properly.

My goodness a snack bar is beyond their business acumen?
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They run from the truth pretty good!
just an observation
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Heritage Foundation is a Koch brothers funded think tank. And we all know, Koch's only mission is to destroy all the good things about America.
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bump FOR TRUTH ABOUT HOW GUBERMINT RUNS THINGS!
 Quoting: DL


But war must be free, right? Talk about elephant in the debt room.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25675509


War is what the "Guberment" is supposed to do you idiot! to protect the states. we could argue further but if you sent all the other BS back to the states the GUBERMENT would have no reason other than protection to wage wars. So in reality you and all of your socialist programs are the reason we fight wars at all! deal with it libtard you created this monster we call the GUBERMENT. Less of it will and always has meant less war!!!! fact!
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Re: THANK YOU DIRTY LIBS... Amtrak Snack Bars Lost $84.5 Million Last Year; $833 Million In 10 Years
Yea but to be fair, the government mostly employs corporate types who want to see government services fail, so people will then rally to use the services of corporates whose shares they own.

Just look at that memo leaked from the US nuclear power watch agency which talked about the need to propagate the msg that nuclear power is safe for the benefit of the industry (when as a watchdog they shouldn't do the industry's PR for them), or how Monsanto executives occupy the ranks of the USDA today, or how banksters occupy the fed and treasury. Absolutely clear conflicts of interest.

I just can't wait for the day when an ex fedex chairman who owns half the stocks of the company starts heading USPS, only to suddenly see it failing miserably because "its the government".
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11302446


So government fails because it is being sabotaged by free marketeers? Are you really serious?

Also, you evidently do not know and have not known that the U.S. Postal Service has been running a huge deficit for years, and will miss a $5 billion payment that is due sometime soon on its pension obligation. I guess Fedex workers are sabotaging the USPS and you were left out of the loop on it. :)
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And tell me, how much did the roads and freeways earn? Very few toll roads in the US, all taxpayer subsidized.
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Thats your argument libtard? Realy? WTF
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Its a damn good argument. WTF? Really?
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Re: THANK YOU DIRTY LIBS... Amtrak Snack Bars Lost $84.5 Million Last Year; $833 Million In 10 Years
yeah

because the libs were in charge ten years ago, right?

:iseeeeeeee:
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You lost all privileges to post in this thread. Unfuckingbelievable...
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Op don't be a fucking commie
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bump FOR TRUTH ABOUT HOW GUBERMINT RUNS THINGS!
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But war must be free, right? Talk about elephant in the debt room.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25675509


Sine you're totally off subject, why don't we compare defense spending to education, health care, welfare, transportation, pensions etc...
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What the fuck is wrong with those things? You sir are a blowhard and an asshole.
shill
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bump FOR TRUTH ABOUT HOW GUBERMINT RUNS THINGS!
 Quoting: DL


But war must be free, right? Talk about elephant in the debt room.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25675509


Sine you're totally off subject, why don't we compare defense spending to education, health care, welfare, transportation, pensions etc...
 Quoting: DL


What the fuck is wrong with those things? You sir are a blowhard and an asshole.
shill
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The government spends the same on pensions as they do on defense spending... By defense spending, I mean being the world police. That's outrageous that pensions can cost the same amount as constantly being engaged in wars and having over 900 military bases around the world.
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According to the newly revised Heritage Foundation report

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I stopped reading right there
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Re: THANK YOU DIRTY LIBS... Amtrak Snack Bars Lost $84.5 Million Last Year; $833 Million In 10 Years
Those trains will take many "useless eaters" to the FEMA camps in the coming martial law and wars.

Sure they "ran a loss"......just really think where those millions went. It's not as if they bought food and just threw it out the window.

It was a siphoning operation....maybe even to install gas chambers on some of the trains not yet in service
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yeah

because the libs were in charge ten years ago, right?

iseeeeeeee
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You lost all privileges to post in this thread. Unfuckingbelievable...
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ha ha ha

you're an idiot

thanks for the reds

bawler

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yeah

because the libs were in charge ten years ago, right?

iseeeeeeee
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You lost all privileges to post in this thread. Unfuckingbelievable...
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ha ha ha

you're an idiot

thanks for the reds

bawler
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FYI, you're the idiot. I answered your question before you even asked it. Bush was in office, and he tried to cut all spending for amtrak... Everyone knows Democrats love amtrak, Republicans don't... You miss that, or was your head too far up your ass?

I didn't red you, but I will now for being a moran with a Zazz personality!
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yeah

because the libs were in charge ten years ago, right?

iseeeeeeee
 Quoting: Mordier L'eft


You lost all privileges to post in this thread. Unfuckingbelievable...
 Quoting: DL


ha ha ha

you're an idiot

thanks for the reds

bawler
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FYI, you're the idiot. I answered your question before you even asked it. Bush was in office, and he tried to cut all spending for amtrak... Everyone knows Democrats love amtrak, Republicans don't... You miss that, or was your head too far up your ass?

I didn't red you, but I will now for being a moran with a Zazz personality!
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bawler
--"In this era of great big brains anything that can happen will. So hunker down." -- Kurt Vonnegut, JR. -- Galapagos.
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You lost all privileges to post in this thread. Unfuckingbelievable...
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ha ha ha

you're an idiot

thanks for the reds

bawler
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FYI, you're the idiot. I answered your question before you even asked it. Bush was in office, and he tried to cut all spending for amtrak... Everyone knows Democrats love amtrak, Republicans don't... You miss that, or was your head too far up your ass?

I didn't red you, but I will now for being a moran with a Zazz personality!
 Quoting: DL


bawler
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Just answer my response with something of substance. I bet you can't come up with anything clever to say... Please respond :)
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Wow you mean the Unions did not strike and save Amtrak?I wonder why?Now its the Libtards who ever the heck they are.Not sure there are to many Libtards working in management at Amtrak.Can we see the books or receipts?goodnewsshitstir2neener2
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ha ha ha

you're an idiot

thanks for the reds

bawler
 Quoting: Mordier L'eft


FYI, you're the idiot. I answered your question before you even asked it. Bush was in office, and he tried to cut all spending for amtrak... Everyone knows Democrats love amtrak, Republicans don't... You miss that, or was your head too far up your ass?

I didn't red you, but I will now for being a moran with a Zazz personality!
 Quoting: DL


bawler
 Quoting: Mordier L'eft


Just answer my response with something of substance. I bet you can't come up with anything clever to say... Please respond :)
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i like how polite you are after throwing insults.
funchrist
yes, i threw one, but i didn't pretend to be nice after.

BTW, where's the reds you're passing my way, if the one you just gave me wasn't from you?
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FYI, you're the idiot. I answered your question before you even asked it. Bush was in office, and he tried to cut all spending for amtrak... Everyone knows Democrats love amtrak, Republicans don't... You miss that, or was your head too far up your ass?

I didn't red you, but I will now for being a moran with a Zazz personality!
 Quoting: DL


bawler
 Quoting: Mordier L'eft


Just answer my response with something of substance. I bet you can't come up with anything clever to say... Please respond :)
 Quoting: DL


i like how polite you are after throwing insults.
funchrist
yes, i threw one, but i didn't pretend to be nice after.

BTW, where's the reds you're passing my way, if the one you just gave me wasn't from you?
 Quoting: Mordier L'eft


Thanks for the reminder tard!
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That's racist!
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Re: THANK YOU DIRTY LIBS... Amtrak Snack Bars Lost $84.5 Million Last Year; $833 Million In 10 Years
Federal spending over the past 20 years has surged 71 percent faster than inflation, much of it on bloated and wasteful programs and services, including Vice President Joe Biden's favorite mode of travel: Amtrak.

According to the newly revised Heritage Foundation report, "Federal Spending by the Numbers," the rail service lost $84.5 million alone on its food and beverage services in 2011, and $833.8 million over the past 10 years. "It has never broken even on these services," said Heritage.

[link to washingtonexaminer.com]
 Quoting: DL


Who exactly are the dirty "Libs" that you blame? Joe Biden? He's the only problem our Gov. has? I would think that the Government is the one to blame or the Amtrak snack bar people. The United States Gov. has wasted so much more money than what you point out. What about the waste of money on the Iraq and Afgan wars? What about the waste of money that is the T.S.A. or Homeland Security Department? What about the waste in the Patriot act 1&2 or 12 or whatever they have it up to now?
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Federal spending over the past 20 years has surged 71 percent faster than inflation, much of it on bloated and wasteful programs and services, including Vice President Joe Biden's favorite mode of travel: Amtrak.

According to the newly revised Heritage Foundation report, "Federal Spending by the Numbers," the rail service lost $84.5 million alone on its food and beverage services in 2011, and $833.8 million over the past 10 years. "It has never broken even on these services," said Heritage.

[link to washingtonexaminer.com]
 Quoting: DL


Who exactly are the dirty "Libs" that you blame? Joe Biden? He's the only problem our Gov. has? I would think that the Government is the one to blame or the Amtrak snack bar people. The United States Gov. has wasted so much more money than what you point out. What about the waste of money on the Iraq and Afgan wars? What about the waste of money that is the T.S.A. or Homeland Security Department? What about the waste in the Patriot act 1&2 or 12 or whatever they have it up to now?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19098273


Because the thread topic is on this... We could go on forever and ever if we get off topic. The point of this thread is we lost $84.5 million selling snacks on a train.





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