Amtrak Rules!

Why do the American people pay money to maintain Amtrak and yet we do not have a plan in place that utilizes the rail system to evacuate major cities? My wife and older son would take the train from Dallas to Houston and enjoy the trip. Karen was pleased that Johnathan, seven at the time, could be free to roam the car and play with other children and she could comfortably visit with other mothers without the excessive noise and cabin pressure. The last time we visited Reunion Station for her train trip, we were informed it was now a bus trip and the train route from Dallas to Houston was discontinued. We drove to Love Field and I put them on a Southwest flight.
Can you imagine the highways if they had limited the traffic out of the city to passenger vehicles with four or more and buses with sixty percent capacity or greater? Why not? Houston has an excellent mass transit system that could have been mobilized to evacuate the city. The evacuation should be conducted based on zip code and organized by the department of Homeland Security (snicker, snicker). Did the American government divert money from worthy social programs, raise taxes to provide the financing (chuckle, chuckle), or did we simply increase the indebtedness of the government to provide revenue for a department of the government that appears impotent? Voyeurism appears to be the primary objective of the Department of Homeland Security.  Yet, I believe that the people of the Unites States of America can and will repair any broken product or system but I don’t want it repaired; I want it working when I buy it!
Would it be disingenuous if I were to offer John McCain and Barack Obama as the Democratic nominees for president and vice-president? I believe they could win if they were to run as independents for the Autonomy party.  Hmmm, maybe I should offer myself as a consultant? I don’t know anything about politics but it will not matter, I would be a typical consultant. Oil Refineries with a rail system in Arizona, desalinization plants for coastal cities, fewer roads and more trains. . . .
What’s missing?