Amtrak Train
Photo courtesy of Jan Canty (8kmU2sxCYZo-unsplash).

The Gazette Telegraph ran a headline celebrating the possible use of infrastructure funds for AMTRAK service to Colorado Springs. Well, to me, there is a major issue with this presumptive hoopla. Amtrack loses quite a bit of money.

In 2019 AMTRAK lost $29 million and in 2018 $170 million. The reporter from the Gazette did not even mention these losses in the article. To use a Paul Harvey line, “Now the rest of the story”.

If we continue by celebrating federal government-run businesses that lose money, face it we are stupid citizens. Wake up please and learn to understand a financial statement. A loss comes out of taxpayer pockets. I, for one, want these businesses to at least break even. It appears however that pandering politicians do not give a damn. I am very tired of their b.s. I believe you should be too.

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    Tim is a Colorado native, who graduated from Fountain Valley High School and attended Coe College. He was the Publisher, of Pampa Daily News Pampa, Texas 1974-1978, and Publisher of Victor Valley Daily Press Victorville, California, 1978-1990. Tim was also a member of the Freedom Newspapers board, which became Freedom Communications, Inc. from 1970-2004. He has served various non-profits in Pampa, Victorville, and Colorado Springs. He strongly believes in The Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution, and the ability of the moral and ethical free human spirit to live a working life without hurting others. He is married to Lorie and has puppies that keep their day hopping. Tim has a wide range of passions he shares on The Maverick Observer, a nonprofit he started in 2020 to provide conflict-of-interest-free news.

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Tim is a Colorado native, who graduated from Fountain Valley High School and attended Coe College. He was the Publisher, of Pampa Daily News Pampa, Texas 1974-1978, and Publisher of Victor Valley Daily Press Victorville, California, 1978-1990. Tim was also a member of the Freedom Newspapers board, which became Freedom Communications, Inc. from 1970-2004. He has served various non-profits in Pampa, Victorville, and Colorado Springs. He strongly believes in The Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution, and the ability of the moral and ethical free human spirit to live a working life without hurting others. He is married to Lorie and has puppies that keep their day hopping. Tim has a wide range of passions he shares on The Maverick Observer, a nonprofit he started in 2020 to provide conflict-of-interest-free news.

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