Gifts

I see the hi-line of Montana got a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/30/build/state/25-amtrak.inc">gift today</a> from America.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Following the evacuation, the representatives voted overwhelmingly to allow Amtrak to keep its long routes, essentially restoring Amtrak to its current state.</blockquote><br />n<br />nRep. Denny Rehberg has been fighting for this and finally got it for Montana's hi-line residents. I see it still has to be approved by the Senate but the article states that should be easier than the House was.<br />n<br />nI am not too sure about spending this kind of money on a service that can't make a go of it on its own. That's why I call it a gift. Everybody, whether Democrat or Republican, wants the Government to have a balanced budget then they throw money around like this. It doesn't make much sense to this dumb cowboy but then most of what the Government does falls into this category.<br />n<br />n<b>The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. Baltasar Gracian</b>