Over at Downsizing Government, we focused on the following issues this week:

• You know that California city that recently made national headlines because local government officials were collecting massive six-figure salaries? It turns out that the city has received millions of dollars in federal subsidies over the past five years.
• Money-losing Amtrak plans to purchase 130 rail cars for its money-losing trains. Ah, government rail.
• Voters who are expecting a new Republican congressional majority to downsize government might not want to hold their breath.
• Federal highway financing and control should be devolved to the states and, even better, the private sector.
• The latest federal bailout isn’t about “America’s children” as White House demagogues claim. Children shouldn’t trust strangers with candy — or Uncle Sam.

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