$286 billion 2005 federal highway bill. That's the bill that diverted billions of dollars of gas tax money away from urgent road and bridge projects toward Member earmarks for bike paths, nature trails and inefficient urban transit systems.
Oberstar was front and center when the camera’s started rolling after the bridge collapse.
“If you can’t afford another nickle for gas, well, then God help you. You have no sense of the future.”
It’s a nickle PER gallon, you prick.
When the U.S. Department of Transportation provides funding for a major project in a specific jurisdiction (state, county, municipality, or any combination of these), it does so with the explicit understanding that THE JURISDICTION IN QUESTION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE.
All that Beltway talk about how the war in Iraq has some relation to a collapsed bridge in Minneapolis is a lot of sh!t. The USDOT simply does not pay for maintenance and upkeep of existing infrastructure that lies in a state or local jurisdiction.
Milton Friedman is spinning in his grave.
Today’s reckless spending and Big Government is slowly leading us into Socialism
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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