What Amtrak did with their budget and expenses would be fraud in the private sector.

Another goodie is the MA Turnpike. We (the MA taxpayers) paid off the entire construction bond in the mid eighties. Paid. Done. The authority was to "go out of business" and close the tool booths. Instead and without govt oversight, the appointed Turnpike Authority went out and raised NEW and bigger bonds just to keep the political hacks in business (toll takers, etc.). They have just now again DOUBLED the tolls to help pay for the Big Dig.

Which is another case in point. Sposed to be $2B and done in 1996. Now past $16B and sposed to be done in 2006. Right.