Posted on 08/25/2007 1:05:11 PM PDT by BGHater
Too many taxpayer dollars going into nonessential things.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1886502/posts?page=1
I-35 sucks from south Texas to Minnesota.
www.outlawjournalism.com
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Should the infrastructure be maintained?
Often the most valuable part of the infrastructure is the right-of-way. When the plant is old, don't patch it. Rip it out by the roots. Build new, on the old right-of-way, and rather than widen old roads, acquire new r-o-w and build more roads.
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Every liberal pol and journalist in MN is salivating over the prospect of using this as the impetus for raising taxes, when they squandered a billion dollars on a light rail system that NOBODY rides, and they’re insisting on spending an additional 20 million to make the new 35W bridge light-rail ready.
The federal budget for 2007 totals $2.8 trillion.
$699 billion (+4.0%) - Defense
$586 billion (+7.0%) - Social Security
$395 billion (+12.4%) - Medicare
$367 billion (+2.0%) - Unemployment and welfare
$276 billion (+2.9%) - Medicaid and other health related
$244 billion (+13.4%) - Interest on debt
$90 billion (+1.3%) - Education and training
$77 billion (+8.1%) - Transportation
$73 billion (+5.8%) - Veterans’ benefits
$44 billion (+9.2%) - Administration of justice
$33 billion (+5.7%) - Natural resources and environment
$33 billion (+15.4%) - Foreign affairs
$27 billion (+3.7%) - Agriculture
$27 billion (+28.7%) - Community and regional development
$25 billion (+4.0%) - Science and technology
$20 billion (+11.4%) - General government
$1 billion (+47.6%) - Energy
Notice transportation gets $77 billion, and various social welfare programs get $1,128 billion.
Aren’t gas taxes supposed to be collected specifically for maintaining the roads and bridges? Where does all that money go if not for that purposes only?
We need to keep spending tax dollars on ‘diversity programs’
We’ll just ask for more to fix bridges and stuff
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To Italian Mafia owned companies.. same with Waste removal and handling..
Nice handy list. Bookmark for later.
The New Privatization
States and cities are selling their roads, bridges, and airports for eye-popping sums.
http://www.city-journal.org/printable.php?id=2297
And of that I see only $850 billion or so that falls under the Constitution. As usual, Dr. Paul is correct again
And too often, R-o-W is being sold off.
Ron Paul impresses me more each day as he takes on the real issues instead of getting into the soundbite game of packaged issues that the MSM likes. I like Duncan Hunter, too...but I fear that we’ll get stuck with another statist... :-(
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