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All of the European rail companies I can think of off the top of my head (Germany, France, Spain, UK) are owned by the government, so it is possible. It seems
by sneeze-slayer 7y ago
All of the European rail companies I can think of off the top of my head (Germany, France, Spain, UK) are owned by the government, so it is possible.
It seems like only in the USA is there the notion that the government is completely unable to function on its own.
- jessaustin 7y agoMost European nations, and certainly the ones under discussion, are more democratic than USA. It isn't as though Amtrak is failing in the mission assigned to it by those who control Congress and the long-term bureaucracy. It is only failing to do what most USA residents would like it to do: make USA rail travel better, more convenient, less expensive. I'm not saying that private firms in USA don't suffer the authority of TPTB, but they suffer it much less directly than most state-owned enterprises.