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.
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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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
OMG! Ron Paul's a kook! He believes in accountability and wisely spending the people's tax dollars!
Where in the Constitution does it state that the federal government can tax me to build bridges in Minnesota? Or restore a dilapidated theater in Edna, Texas? Or subsidize his shrimpers?
He’s just another career congressman, pretending to be different with publicity stunts for the lunatic fringe.
Another good article by Rep. Paul. It’s unfortunate that he draws such venom on what was created to be a conservative web forum. It seems to me that these attacks all boil down to three basic distortions. First, that Rep. Paul is crazy because some crazy people like him, by which logic Jodie Foster is crazy because of John Hinckley’s obsession.
Second, that he is some kind of pork champion, which is based on either a complete misunderstanding or a deliberate misrepresentation of how earmarks actually work. This is the most disturbing distortion, insofar that Paul’s actual record makes accusing him of being pro-pork about as rational as accusing the Pope of being pro-abortion.
And finally, that Paul has blamed America for 9-11. This isn’t true, of course; he’s just said that the terrorists have said (and our own intelligence has confirmed) that they want to attack us because of our presence in the Middle East. But some people apparently think that a conservative who states those facts should be attacked more spitefully than Hillary or Obama.
It always seems to be the same thing, for hundreds of posts, on Ron Paul threads. It’s too bad.
Is Dr. Paul a socialist? Why should the government be involved in building, opertaing, maintaining highways at all? All highways whould be privately built, operated, and maintained by private enterprise charging whatever price they like for access. That is the libertarian way. Come on Dr, Paul.