Ah blow my nose at you, so-called "Arthur Keeeng"! You and all your silly English Knnnnnnnn-ighuts!!!
Posted on 06/16/2006 10:20:30 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Forget it, Washington Republicans and Democrats alike consider us so unsophisticated, uneducated, uninformed that it's not worth their time to ask for our opinion or approval. Just keep paying your taxes and watching American Idol, and they'll take care of running the country for us.
Ah, I forgot about those articles. You're probably correct. Thanks. - OB1
lots of liberals need lawn services.
What are they going to do? Send the Spanish military over here to STOP the Army from using the road? We'll send 'em back home with their Euro-statist tails between their legs!
The weather, perhaps?
I don't think most Mexicans know about snow shovels...
bump.
Indeed. They won't really need the swimwear unless they they head for the Northwest Corner. The beaches there are so nice...at least until the mutant mosquitos carry you off.
I think Tariffs are starting to go the way of the Dinosaur world wide. It is the trend. I don't think starting to fund a Government on Tariffs, like it was 1830 and we have Andrew Jackson as President, is great idea. Now a National sales tax instead of a income tax. That I could get down with.
"I don't think most Mexicans know about snow shovels..."
I dunno. They're fast learners. I'm hoping to hire a nice illegal to do my driveway next year. I'm getting too darned old to walk behind my snowblower. Plus, with my full beard, I always have icicles down to my chest afterwards. [grin]
We were told the reason for the Interrsate Highway System was indeed for increased mobility of troops. But with an ocean on each coast, a Normandy-like invasion would be extremely unlikely and mass troop movements to combat it an even more remote possibility.
No, the system was built to give the federal government control over interstate transportation and movement. We were sold a bill of goods. Just as the Feds give schools money then tell them how to spend it, they built highways and then proceeded to regulate their use.
I know someone will say my tinfoil hat is on too tightly, but I believe we are once again seeing "a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object", only this time the "object" is a one-world-government. This transportation corridor would be a concrete (no pun intended) method of dividing the USA in half and allowing our enemies better opportunities to take over individual states.
Bump! It is pretty clear. This is not tinfoil or Koolaid, it is so brazen it is pathetic...and the apologists for it are worse than that. They are criminal con men.
I hope it's not too late to stop this Utopian crap because it will be the end of the country if it's not stopped.
Just pulling the financing plug at Congress...and preventing any toll road... would likely stop it dead in its tracks. The Walmart, Ace Hardware, Home Depot crowd won't want to pay for this puppy themselves. They want the suckers, oops, I mean the taxpayers to fund it all.
" it would negate the power of two unions, the Longshoremen and Teamsters."
You just convinced me. Do it.
You need to elaborate a little more. Are you suggesting that should the U.S. military use force to open a U.S. Interstate in the name of national security, it is some sort of a treaty violation?
I disagree.
Every major military installation, Army, Navy, and AF has an interstate highway passing its gate.
It can be argued that the military necessity for the highway system has gone away, since deployment now is mostly by heavy lift aircraft, but the equipment still has to be moved from factory to military bases via ground.
"Trade with China is increasing greatly"
We could always reverse this trend. This whole thing smells.
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