Posted on 05/11/2015 6:50:35 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
The Metropolitan Council continues to struggle with a marketing problem that just won't go away. The projected cost of extending light rail from Minneapolis to Eden Prairie has ballooned to $2 billion, which would make it the largest public infrastructure project in state history. That certainly would be a lot of bridges repaired and lanes of freeway added.
Mark Fuhrmann, the project director for Metro Transit, said the other day that delaying the project could jeopardize federal funding. In other words, if we don't act now, we could lose the government's contribution needed to build the line.
The government's share? Any money from the federal government for any project is not government money. It's your money. The government doesn't have any money. It doesn't make any money. It takes money. One small way we could get this country back to some semblance of fiduciary responsibility is to demand of the political and bureaucratic class that they stop using all convenient euphemisms for money.
Every single dime in the United States is ours. When Governor Turnbuckle was in office, he grabbed at federal funding to build the Hiawatha line. Being Governor Turnbuckle, his actions were not clouded by actual thinking. There was a pot of money out there and he did not want to see it go to anybody else. He wanted it. It was that simple.
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Productivity
and
Independence
Killing these is the key to Government control over our lives.
The mountains of new regulation under Obama are aimed precisely at this!
I was talking to family this weekend about “The Somali Trolly”
They were surprised to hear that Portland’s light rail has never been profitable.
Minneapolis should have asked Portland taxpayers instead of Portland Politicians about MAX.
As an added bonus, oil pipelines do not feature Amish youth beating up on other passengers.
PING!
Oil pipelines don’t accomplish the primary goal:
liberal self-righteousness
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