He wants to get his grubby little hands on it!
After the federal government spent billions on Amtrak to modernizes the the passenger trains... Musk want to privatize it along with the post office, and long list of other agencies.
Musk's proposed privatizing of Amtrak has the stink of taxpayer rip-offs throughout railroad historyDaily KosBy Meteor BladesMarch 18, 2025With all the dark chaos being unfolded by the techbro supremo and his squad of young know-it-all software engineers at DOGE, some items understandably get lost to us in the overwhelming daily deluge of cruelty and incompetence. That was the case for a speech the world’s richest man gave at a tech conference 13 days ago.[...]Musk reportedly said to those attending the Morgan Stanley Technology Media & Telecom conference, March 5: “If you go to China, you get epic bullet train rides. They’re amazing.” That is a widespread view. Even among people who despise the Chinese leadership for other things, there is almost uniform agreement that the Beijing government has built the world’s premiere high-speed rail system, 25,000 miles of it done quickly once the top-level political battle fought over getting the first high-speed line built was ended just 17 years ago. In addition to everything else, China’s HSR system is a powerful tool for cutting emissions. Never mind that the folks in charge don’t have to worry about local zoning laws or citizen protests and lawsuits causing delays.At the tech conference, Musk didn’t stop at praising China’s system, he called Amtrak "embarrassing," saying it is “a sad situation. If you’re coming from another country, please don’t use our national rail. It can leave you with a very bad impression of America.”
The billionaires want to do with it what they did to the hospitals, newspapers, housing, and other businesses milk them dry of capital and then toss the out as shells. Then push the price of tickets out the wind.
NewsweekBy Theo BurmanMar 18, 2025Elon Musk has voiced ambitions to privatize Amtrak, the biggest high-speed rail provider in the U.S., which could have a huge impact on the technology's future.President Donald Trump's adviser said that Amtrak, which is supported by state and federal subsidies, was in "a sad situation" and that privatizing it would boost productivity for high-speed rail in the U.S.[...]Speaking at the Morgan Stanley conference on March 5, Musk told listeners that Amtrak was an example of a service that should be privatized, as it wasn't being properly managed."I think logically we should privatize anything that can reasonably be privatized," Musk said. "I think we should privatize the Post Office and Amtrak for example....We should privatize everything we possibly can."He later said that the high-speed rail system "is a sad situation" and that "it will leave you with a very bad impression of America."
Amtrak is undergoing a major reconstruction... bridges built in the 1800s are being replaced, railroad stations are being upgraded, new rail cars and engines are being upgraded. Now the oligarchs want to get it at a fire sale!
Amtrak, in a statement: "Amtrak is meeting record demand, all while delivering mega construction projects, upgrading fleet, and serving more places with state partners. With strong federal support from the Trump-Vance administration, Amtrak can continue investments in American infrastructure and jobs, strengthen the economy, and make America a world leader in rail once again."
What else do the oligarchs want to get their hands on?
- U.S. Postal Service
- Medicare
- National Weather Service
- Public schools
- Air traffic control
- Veterans Affairs
All of these are services! In other words they do not make a profit and it they are privatized that will mean they will be looking to make a profit! Do you really want to pay each time you look at the weather?
Privatization has lead to erosion of service quality due to profit-driven cost-cutting measures, reduced accessibility, especially for marginalized groups, and as private entities prioritize profitability over public interest.
Do you think that if the post office and Amtrak are privatized there will be any competition for their services. Do you think you will have the same quality of service with a Fed Ex or a UPS running the mail? Do you think that you would get mail delivery in the woods of Maine like you do now? Heck now Fed Ex and UPS now give their rural customers packages to the USPS to deliver, on the tip of Cape Cod I have to go to the post office to pick up my Amazon packages because they don't deliver on that far out on the Cape.
What about air traffic controls can there be competition for an air traffic control? Can you imagine two competing air traffic control companies as the planes fly across country?
How do you like our private healthcare? Do we have the lowest healthcare cost in the world? What about electric rates? Have the price of electricity gone down. Here in Connecticut Norwich Public Utilities that is owned by the city, the electric rates are approximately 30% lower than those of Eversource and United Illuminating!
We have seen lies after lies how privatizing lowers rate... but what has really happened is without competition the prices go up and the service quality goes down... Frontier Communication Frontier Communications generally receives negative customer service ratings about with issues with billing, customer support.
What do fascist authoritarian government usually do first? Reward their billionaire friends with privatized government agencies!
This is what Trump said on Truth Social...
This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President - He didn’t WIN the popular VOTE (by a lot!), he didn’t WIN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, he didn’t WIN 2,750 to 525 Counties, HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY. I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!! WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!This is nothing but racist hogwash and trying to undermine the Constitution and the Courts!
GOP = Gang Of Privateers
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