Highway Robbery of Texas Roads (SPP & Trans-Texas Corridor)

Texas Eagle Forum ^ | 08-20-07 | Cathie Adams

[deport]

Americans know that our roads have become busier, but few recognize that most of that traffic is due to the fact that we are importing goods that we used to manufacture. Even fewer are aware that as much as 60% of our food is now being imported or that much of our military equipment manufacturing has moved offshore. Yet federal and state lawmakers seem more committed to enabling elitist global interests, than fulfilling their constitutional responsibility to protect citizens from outside threats.

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Another recycled Schlafly story. Bits and pieces of ramblings from across the spectrum, a sentence here, an event there, a statistic or two, etc. etc. thrown together.

The above para from the article makes it sound like that imports are the reason for our transportation problems in the US. Yes imports have to be transported via some method.

But if all these imports would be manufactured within the borders of the USA they still would have to be transported across the fruited plains. Thus the transportation structure would the same stress it has today, overcrowding, no money to expand and land requirements were expansions were to occur.

The days of the Conestoga wagon and mules are long passed as the major transportaion mode for the USA, like it or not. People have to deal in reality, current needs, abilities to finance, impact upon society at large, etc.

[unixfox]

They can't even fix a pot hole. What makes them think we want to pay to have this behemoth built by foreigners?

It will take approx 50 years to complete this thing!! I would hope that in 50 years we will have a better means of transportation.

Friggin idiots.

[zeugma]

Members of the Texas Senate Transportation & Homeland Security Committee met on August 7 to discuss this funding dilemma. Committee Chairman John Carona suggested a new constitutional amendment to protect the two existing highway funds from future abuses. He also recommended linking the state gas tax to inflation, in order to keep pace with the economy. Both ideas could be helpful in the future, but do nothing to remedy our current state of affairs.

As usual, the first instinct of a Texas legislooter is to raise taxes.

They've been stealing this money from our highway funds for years, and the remedy is to raise our taxes!

Bunch of thieving looters.

[unixfox]

How did We get to this point? Did We sell ourselves out?

We got to this point because we allowed it to happen. We didn't sell ourselves out, our so-called leaders did.

[Borax Queen]

We are surrounded by traitors.

I'm starting to think this country's "leadership" is just as corrupt as the banana republics'. It's just our pols are smoother, more polished, and more skilled in deceiving us.

[Borax Queen]

President Bush agreed to a Security and Prosperity Partnership ( http://www.spp.gov ) with Canada and Mexico without Congressional approval or debate in March 2005. He then directed the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Transportation to begin merging their bureaucracies with their counterparts in Mexico and Canada. In 2006 he met with the presidents of Mexico and Canada in Cancun, Mexico, and this year he took time from his vacation in Crawford to attend another closed-door meeting with them in Quebec, Canada.

BTTT

[zeugma]

I'm starting to think this country's "leadership" is just as corrupt as the banana republics'. It's just our pols are smoother, more polished, and more skilled in deceiving us.

Congratulations! You have learned something very important today. 

[Borax Queen]

Lol!

[zeugma]

It would be LOL if it weren’t so damned depressing.

[Borax Queen]

Hahaha, yeah really. Well, I’ve realized for years there were traitors among us, but each day brings to light how deep and vast the corruption is, and how beholden to non-peasant interests the elites are, and how long they’ve been plotting for their own betterment at our expense... Preaching to the choir :)