Toomey Saves Taxpayers From Goofy Street Sign Mandate

BillLawrenceOnline.Com ^ | 9-2-11

[Tribune7]

Pat Toomey makes a difference ping

[Eric in the Ozarks]

About as smart at Missouri spending $4 million on tenth of a mile highway markers.

[all the best]

Totally insane. What a waste of money and an abuse of federal power. Why are street signs the business of the federal government? If a town wants no street signs or street signs in Mandarin, so what. That’s for the town folk to decide. These people are power hungry monsters.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Any time you hear the press and politicans moaning about needing money for “the nation’s crumbling infrastructure,” remember this. This is what those dollars get spent on. Useless nonsense. New signs, fancy electronic billboards and “smart” traffic monitoring systems, sidewalks in the middle of farm country. Its spending for the sake of spending. Toomey is a great senator. Lots of common sense, very knowledgeable, good conservative instincts and makes his case in a low key way. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him run for president one day.

[Free Vulcan]

We saw that last year coming up I-55. Me and dad both thought ‘what a huge waste’ and speculated someone got a sweetheart contract.

[kabar]

Pat Toomey is among the very best in Congress. He is bright, articulate, and shows great judgment.

[dirtboy]

I lived in Lower Merion for 10 years. Their street signs suck - can't see 'em at night for beans - but that's their choice.

But you go over to Radnor and their signs are quite visible. It was stupid to force a worthless change on any town.

[Fresh Wind]

[BWDog]

This "roll back" has probably upset some sign manufacturing companies who were smiling at the prospect of all sorts of $$$ rolling in...

Too bad, so sad...

[Baynative]

Common sense; what a novel idea.

[dirtboy]

I will say this for the 10/th markers. You can't always tell where you are in an accident or breakdown with mile markers and you call it in to try and alert the authorities where you are. But a 10th sign is always in sight.

But I am sure some well-connected person made some coin off the taxpayers for it, they always seem to do so.

[Baynative]

"This "roll back" has probably upset some sign manufacturing companies who were smiling at the prospect of all sorts of $$$ rolling in... "

What about all the local unions that were prepping their four man crews, their traffic control flag persons and legions of, schedulers supervisors and foremen to handle the sign changing task? I'll bet some cities were planning to do this at night so as not to disrupt traffic, but to pay out plenty of overtime.

[Tribune7]

I kind of like the tenth of a mile markers in Pa. BUT I'd be ticked if the feds cooked up a mandate to replace them just because they didn't like the font-style.

Actually, I'd be ticked about any mandates to have them on non-federal roads.

[Tribune7]

This is what those dollars get spent on. Useless nonsense. New signs, fancy electronic billboards and “smart” traffic monitoring systems, sidewalks in the middle of farm country. Its spending for the sake of spending.

EXACTLY!!!!

Note the lack of upper-lower case letters. We're you able to read it?

[frogjerk]

Libs will say this is a job killer.

[Leaning Right]

These people are power hungry monsters.

Excellent post!

[Tribune7]

But you go over to Radnor and their signs are quite visible.

I wonder if they would have had to change. I forget if they are u/l case.

Springfield has pretty good signs & yup they would have had to replace theirs.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Uhh, street sign manufactures are not making as many signs as they used to so donate a few grand to a politician and get millions in return. Plus the union thugs at the sign company have a cushy job for a few more years and will vote democrap.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I like the 1/10th markers too. Same with the smart monitoring systems that tell you how long its going to take to get to a certain point on the highway. But not if they are adding to a $1 trillion + per year deficit. Its priorities. We don’t have the money to spend on any of it right now.