Seriously????
Great idea! Let's cut all Amtrak employees wages, ( except for the Suits since it's well known that they are the brains and the worker bees are the muscle) pay the servers in the food service cars minimum wages plus tips, and the other OBS and short order cooks $10 an hour like the fast food workers!
The Conductors and Engineers are way overpaid too, so cut their pay in half and people will still line up to take these cushy jobs! And get rid of those expensive pensions and insurance, it'll save a bundle!
The Huge savings can then be used to buy new equipment so we can add more trains that no-one will want to work on and make them more like buses and cheapie airlines!
This will really impress the so called "Budget Hawks",Labor bashers, and Amtrak Haters in Congress, and the sheeple that vote for these charlatans!
The new Amtrak slogan: " Cut your way to Prosperity on the backs of the help!"( Sarcasm turned off!)