Ace42
06-21-2005, 12:45 AM
Supply and demand in action:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4112360.stm
Demand goes up, so does the rail industry lay on more carriages? Hell no, pull out the seats in existing carriages so more people can stand! Charge people more for using a more over-crowded service!
Capitalism works, people!
But the RMT rail union said the biggest drain on the railway industry was the private sector itself.
Its general secretary Bob Crow said rail firms had sucked out more than £6bn since privatisation.
The best way to cut costs was to bring rail operations back into public ownership, he added.
Mr Crow said the comments were "a classic bit of upside down logic" from "privateers" who wanted to remove large sums of taxpayers' money and passengers' cash from the rail industry.
He said: "Talk about cutting costs is a bit rich from the private sector, which enjoys more than three times the subsidy that British Rail got."
Privatisation is *so much more efficient* than those badly run nationalised industries!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4112360.stm
Demand goes up, so does the rail industry lay on more carriages? Hell no, pull out the seats in existing carriages so more people can stand! Charge people more for using a more over-crowded service!
Capitalism works, people!
But the RMT rail union said the biggest drain on the railway industry was the private sector itself.
Its general secretary Bob Crow said rail firms had sucked out more than £6bn since privatisation.
The best way to cut costs was to bring rail operations back into public ownership, he added.
Mr Crow said the comments were "a classic bit of upside down logic" from "privateers" who wanted to remove large sums of taxpayers' money and passengers' cash from the rail industry.
He said: "Talk about cutting costs is a bit rich from the private sector, which enjoys more than three times the subsidy that British Rail got."
Privatisation is *so much more efficient* than those badly run nationalised industries!