Sessions ‘flabbergasted’ by increase in Obama transportation budget (it's a union payoff)

The Hill ^ | 03/03/11 | Erik Wasson

[ridesthemiles]

Less gas tax is also being raised due to over 15 million unemployed people NOT driving to & from work eash & every day.

For those of us who are retired- we cannot pay $4 +++ per gallon.

Last year, I drove my truck only 298 miles. My annual vehicle insurance on that vehicle cost me over $2 per mile—for it to sit in the driveway.

[ridesthemiles]

Deficits during the Bush years averaged 3 or 4 hundred billion”””

IF one takes out the funding for the money paid out to victims of 9/11, Iraq, & Afghanistan/Pakistan wars, how much was GWB’s budget deficit???

I would relaly like to know those figures

[ridesthemiles]

Every construction bill that NObama has signed calls for ‘prevailing Union wages’ to be paid- no matter what company does the job.

He will do his best to protect the Unions to his last breath.

[ridesthemiles]

For decades the Democrats have punished and waged war against achievement...and rewarded undesirable behaviors.”””

“ATLAS SHRUGGED” is happening, folks.

Time for many of us to “Go Galt”.

[listenhillary]

Can the Koch brothers, Blackwater and Halliburton get a construction company together? I want to see liberals blow a gasket.

I don’t care if the pay a prevailing wage to non-union members. That’s not the point. The point is to starve the unions.

We really should NOT spend this money, but I can still imagine the steam coming out of their ears.

[silverleaf]

“infrastructure” is progressive codespeak for “union payola”

[r9etb]

Allowing the current baseline to become institutionalized is a 100 megaton bomb waiting to go off. The GOP has to begin acting like it.

That's a fair statement.

The question is, how do they throw the gauntlet down in a way that doesn't impose too high a political cost.

Because if the dems can raise political cost to the GOP high enough, that brings up the worst-case scenario: Obama getting re-elected.

I think it's actually a more delicate job than it seems. As huge as the issue is, I think most people are still in the cover-the-ears sayin "lalalalala" phase. The energy of the demonstrations in Wisconsin and elsewhere comes in large part from the suddenness with which the problem has been addressed.

[itsahoot]

will be to dismantle the Depts of Education, Energy, Transportation, HHS, HUD, EPA, PBS and any other leaches on the government teat.

It will take a better man/woman than Reagan to get it done.

[WOBBLY BOB]

High Speed to Insolvency-Why liberals love trains.

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/27/high-speed-to-insolvency.html

To progressives, the best thing about railroads is that people riding them are not in automobiles, which are subversive of the deference on which progressivism depends. Automobiles go hither and yon, wherever and whenever the driver desires, without timetables. Automobiles encourage people to think they—unsupervised, untutored, and unscripted—are masters of their fates. The automobile encourages people in delusions of adequacy, which make them resistant to government by experts who know what choices people should make.
Time was, the progressive cry was “Workers of the world unite!” or “Power to the people!” Now it is less resonant: “All aboard!”

[BJClinton]

that the Obama budget calls for an unspecified new tax to raise $435 billion to pay for the new six-year, $556-billion infrastructure build-out.

I thought that's what the shovel-ready stimulus bill was about.