It would be sad to see Amtrak disappear, but I'm not real satisfied with the current level of long distance service anyway and what I'd like would probably be prohibitively expensive, so I'd reluctantly agree to let it go. It's just not worth that kind of money.

"A free people (claim) their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
--Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774