Before their town hall at Greenfield Park, Barack and Michelle had lunch in the home of Mike and Cheryl Fischer in Beech Grove, IN. Mike, 53, is a machinist at Amtrak's Beech Grove shop. Cheryl, 52, is a technician at a local hospital. Their children and grandchildren also came for a lunch of Subway and potato chips. During the lunch, Barack and Mike talked about Amtrak and a possible layoff that Mike is facing. Barack said:
The irony is with the gas prices what they are, we should be expanding rail service. One of the things I have been talking bout for awhile is high speed rail connecting all of these Midwest cities – Indianapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, St. Louis. They are not that far away from each other. Because of how big of a hassle airlines are now. It takes you just about as much time if you had high speed rail to go the airport, park, take your shoes off.This is something that we should be talking about a lot more. We are going to be having a lot of conversations this summer about gas prices. And it is a perfect time to start talk about why we don’t have better rail service. We are the only advanced country in the world that doesn’t have high speed rail. We just don’t have it. And it works on the Northeast corridor. They would rather go from New York to Washington by train than they would by plane. It is a lot more reliable and it is a good way for us to start reducing how much gas we are using. It is a good story to tell.
Check out these pictures from the lunch:
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