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Many of us in the local area realized this was a boondoggle we could not afford when we voted down a referendum in 2003. But, no one listed and the City of Norfolk and Commonwealth went around us and okay'd the project anyway. Reap and sow!
1 posted on 12/14/2010 11:43:49 AM PST by Sursam Abordine
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To: Sursam Abordine

You bring the feathers, I’ll bring the tar ......


2 posted on 12/14/2010 11:46:27 AM PST by tgusa (Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
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To: Sursam Abordine

Isn’t that a crime?


3 posted on 12/14/2010 11:48:27 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Sursam Abordine

A much smaller version of Boston’s “Big Dig”. frauds aplenty.


7 posted on 12/14/2010 11:53:09 AM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Sursam Abordine

This same type of boondoggle has been in the Orlando, FL area for decades. A light rail system is not supported by the voters, yet pushed through by the politicians. Even more sad, an area House Rep, John Mica, has been the big driver on the light rail issue....and he is usually quite conservative, even quite pro-America (voted “no” on NAFTA, CAFTA)....

This push for light-rail and public transportation is just part of a broader agenda to take privately owned transport from individuals....the car-grabbers. Before Al Gore was so into Global Warming Hoax...he was pushing the Car-Grabber agenda in his “Earth in the Balance” book.


9 posted on 12/14/2010 11:53:15 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Whenever something is "Global"...it means its bad for America)
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To: Sursam Abordine

I think the same thing happened in Charlotte, NC. I can’t remember names or anything but it seems that there was a guy at the top of the rail project who knew it was going to cost millions more than first stated but when it came to light, it was too late to do anything about it. He had to stay on as he had headed the rail project from the get-go. If it had come to light how much it was going to actually cost, there would have been so much uproar that the rail may not have been approved.
Is this a pattern?


11 posted on 12/14/2010 12:33:47 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Sursam Abordine

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Lyle_Lanley

“You know, a town with money’s a little like the mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it, and danged if he knows how to use it!” Lyle Lanley


12 posted on 12/14/2010 1:24:26 PM PST by VaFederalist
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