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Lean Forward? You First!
Townhall.com ^ | September 9, 2011 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 09/09/2011 4:37:05 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 09/09/2011 4:37:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

communists are only good for one thing... ONE THING!

LLS


2 posted on 09/09/2011 4:50:11 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Certified Al Palin Hobbit Terrorist)
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To: Kaslin
"Lean forward, it won't hurt a bit".

- The Government

3 posted on 09/09/2011 4:50:17 AM PDT by JPG (Palin '12)
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To: Kaslin

The Hoover Dam isn’t a shovel ready project.


4 posted on 09/09/2011 4:53:45 AM PDT by ari-freedom (It's time for Obama to get a downgrade.)
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To: Kaslin
Boston's Big Dig took two decades to build; the far more ambitious Hoover Dam, Maddow and company love, took four.

four? I'll assume that's four years not decades..

5 posted on 09/09/2011 4:54:02 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Richard Feynman father of Quantum Physics)
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three years
6 posted on 09/09/2011 4:59:48 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Richard Feynman father of Quantum Physics)
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7 posted on 09/09/2011 5:01:31 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
four YEARS to build the Hoover Dam!!! That's when America and Americans had COMMON SENSE!!

When we were ALL TRULY "Ameri-CANS" America worked....now Americans and ILLEGALS just are "GIMME'.s"

8 posted on 09/09/2011 5:01:31 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin
Ironically, liberals love building highways and bridges, but loathe making it affordable to drive on them.

LOL! How true.... As for Ms Maddow, shouldn't that be Mr Maddow>


9 posted on 09/09/2011 5:01:31 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Kaslin
The conservative masses are done talking....it's all action(or more to the point, inaction) now.

I have no empirical evidence to prove it, but right now it seems, most people are not out spending, hiring, consuming because they are not happy with the leadership or path of government. The fact that our leaders are not listening to, or doing anything about, any of the issues facing average Americans, adds into it as well.

So since I, as an average American, being ignored by my ‘leaders’ I still have an option that is available to me to do my part to institute change. I can choose to NOT be a part of perpetuating this madness. I can sit and accumulate my wealth, and spend it on what I feel is necessary, and not listen to this clown college we call an administration.

Since it is the conservative money that government needs to keep giving away (since your typical liberal takes more than they give), I will do my part to starve the beast. Nancy Pelosi can stomp her feet all she wants, and whine that we need to “get to the podium and say something!!”, the time for talk is done.

It’s action time. Or more to the point, inaction time.

10 posted on 09/09/2011 5:03:25 AM PDT by Fedupwithit ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" -Albert Camus)
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Boston's Big Dig took two decades to build; the far more ambitious Hoover Dam, Maddow and company love, took four.

With 9/11 just around the corner, these specs from the World Trade Center speak volumes as to where we have come down to:

Groundbreaking for the World Trade Center took place on August 5, 1966. The North Tower was completed in December 1972 and the South Tower was finished in July 1973. The construction project involved excavating a large amount of material, which was later used as landfill to build Battery Park City on the west side of Lower Manhattan. The cost for the construction was $400 million ($2,169,167,354 in 2011 dollars).

Source.

Done in six years. They've been building the replacement "memorial" for eleven years and still aren't done.

$2.2 billion in construction cost. I wonder how many jobs, temporary during construction and permanent once the buildings opened, that money provided? nobama's latest "jobs" scam is going to cost 2000 times that amount. I'd bet money Porkulus II won't create 10% of the jobs the WTC created.

11 posted on 09/09/2011 5:03:50 AM PDT by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

Just some trivia, but the Big Dig was last part that completed the Interstate Highway system.


12 posted on 09/09/2011 5:05:20 AM PDT by scbison
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To: Kaslin
ALL taxpayer-funded projects should be open bidding, not handed selectively to favored Union/Over-priced bidders only.

The Hoover Dam was built by NON-UNION Labor, and today, Union Labor costs compared to the non-Union alternative is 30% to 50% overpriced. It's why manufacturing is moved offshore, as the Unions priced themselves out of a job. Now, Unions expect Democrats to FORCE Union labor, via Government cronies Regulations/Law/etc. in the PRIVATE SECTOR (see Boeing/South Carolina, where the Union-infested NLRB is stepping in to protect the flow of Union dues to the DNC).

When a company can't compete due to Union Labor costs, they leave town. With the NLRB getting on their case to force them to use Union Labor, they will leave the Country.

13 posted on 09/09/2011 5:07:55 AM PDT by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: Rummyfan

She’s got insects crawling on her neck.


14 posted on 09/09/2011 5:09:06 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If Hitler had been as lazy as Obama, the 1940's would have been a very nice decade!!)
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To: Kaslin
Lean forward?

Mackinaw bridge built in the early 50s. Construction cost: $99.8 million Heavily funded by the sale of bonds and private interests. 5 miles long with towers nearly 1000 feet from the lake bottom. Built in about 3 years with no winter construction.

Hoover dam bypass bridge (Pat Tillman Memorial). Nearly 2000 feet long, a decade under construction at a cost of around $240 million.

Lean forward indeed. /s
15 posted on 09/09/2011 5:12:37 AM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a Permenant Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: Fedupwithit

The leftists in the gov’t are looking for an opportunity to crack down on any action that we take to oppose them, or to fight back.

I like your “silent strike” tactic. It gives them nothing to focus on and use the force of government against, but it totally resists their efforts.


16 posted on 09/09/2011 5:12:54 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Lazamataz

It has that “classic lesbian” look. For some reason, they all seem to end up looking like that.

I would have to assume that even you would “refrain”....


17 posted on 09/09/2011 5:14:13 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Kaslin

I didn’t see the ad with Rachel Maddow standing on the edge of the Hoover Dam, if I had I would have been screaming, JUMP-—JUMP.


18 posted on 09/09/2011 5:15:36 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Lazamataz

I’d hit it! (With bug spray......from 10ft away)


19 posted on 09/09/2011 5:15:57 AM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: upchuck

My math is wrong. nobama’s scam cost 200 times what the WTC cost, not 2000. Sorry.


20 posted on 09/09/2011 5:18:55 AM PDT by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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