Posted on 07/01/2014 12:55:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
OH Yeah ...my son lived on a dirt road they decided to pave about the time of the last stimulus. Then they started, and it took two years to pave down to about 1/4 mile from paved road. Now I have seen them standing around out there for past week with their equipment and stating they are paving the last 1/4 mile...lol They will be there until fall, like the last time. This is a dead end road....unbelievable. I could have done the road myself in half the time....and finished it.
MORE MONEY FOR STUPID PROJECTS, SURE WHY NOT!(sarc)
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The stimulus was to ensure that union donations to the DNC continued uninterrupted.
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Absolutely true. Nothing but a transfer of tax dollars to unions so they can continue donating to Democrats.
The stimulus program was never about infrastruture, just like Obamacare was never about healthcare.
Yeah, Barry...we gotta see something for this $920 billion we gave you in 2009. You said you were going to build roads and bridges with that money. You weren’t lying then, were you? (Heh, heh...heh, heh...)
And now, reverting to one of his favorite tactics, he is manufacturing a crisis that will require huge sums of money to remedy. If Congress won't give that money to him, he will use that pen to extort the money himself.
No imperial presidency, my left buttcheek.
If he truly wanted to help out union members, he’d be pushing Keystone, plenty of good paying jobs there and mostly unions. The unions are well aware of this too and aren’t too happy with the magic negro.
Zero had to choose between unions and the green weenies on this issaue and so far the unions (an d our country) are loosing.
D. All the above
“He is crazy. It Is socialism. It is part of the imperial presidency,”
Fixed it :-)
Building and repairing of roads and bridges does not create wealth for a nation. They merely facilitate it somewhat. Actual wealth creation comes from industry and mining of raw materials.
His highway plan is just warmed over Roosevelt Depression era WPA programs..................
***Republicans and Democrats in Congress are still divided on both a short-term solution to finance highway projects****
I’ve watched roads being built for the last 60 years. It took as long as 20 years to get 35 miles of free road built from Tulsa, OK to Chouteau.
On the other hand, a 40 mile TOLL ROAD can be built in about 5 years.
Does anybody, anywhere, think the highway money has been spent efficiently and cost-effectively?
If they would stop flushing money down the toilet, perhaps the tax money they already have would be sufficient. We should at least try to make them live on their current budget before shovling more money into that black hole.
Maybe, maybe not. But for sure Barackus Obamass is a crazy socialist in an imperial presidency.
I drive a seven-mile stretch of the Garden State Parkway on my daily commute. In those seven miles I pass four full-span electric sign boards and they are building the foundations for another five.
These signs are huge — at least ten feet high and fifty feet wide. They look more like Jumbotrons.
What is so terribly important for me to know that the Parkway Authority needs an electric sign board every 4000 feet?
He knows what he is. And he knows that WE know who and what he is. He wants us to believe that this 1 bill is not one of them.
Way to go Stalin.
A socialist without money is just a peon.
The 14th(?) Congress had drafted legislation which would have appropriated federal funding to build highways and canals. But President James Madison had vetoed the bill, noting in the constitutionally required veto letter to Congress that appropriating funds for roads and canals was not one of the powers that the states had delegated to Congress via the Constitution.
Veto of federal public works bill
The basic reason that we have a national highway system regardless that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to appropriate tax dollars to build it is the following imo.
After fighting a wars, the Civil War and WWII as examples, the federal government tends to suffer "amnesia," not being able to remember its constitutionally limited powers. And with all due respect to the family and supporters of the late President Eisenhower who had led the troops in Europe, Eisenhower wrongly signed the bill that established the nation's highway, Congress having no Article I, Section 8 justification to make such a bill. And it would probably have been no problem for Congress to petition the states for a highway amendment to the Constitution.
But once again, low-information voters unsurprisingly forgot to remind misguided Congress to petition the states for an appropriate constitutional delegation of power to appropriate funds.
The following two excerpts from case opinions are applicable to constitutional problems with the nation's higway system.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
We have them all over my area in PA too. We need to be told “Don’t Drink and Drive” over and over and over again. Its so asinine in my area that one says “One Minute to the Turnpike” and the sign is about a two tenths of a mile before the Turnpike. Or if you are stuck in a traffic jam, you need to be told that you are stuck in a traffic jam. Or that its 20 minutes to the next exit, as if most people don’t have GPS.
They put a sidewalk along a farmer’s field in my area. No one walks in that area or if they did, they could walk along the edge of the field. Its insanity. Now someone has to maintain that sidewalk.
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