[jpsb]

It guess the concept of precedent is over your head I could have posted many other examples but I thought the federal government building the US railway system to open the west was a very good one.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

the concept of precedent is applicable to the judiciary, not to executive/legislative expenditures of taxpayer money.

[running_dog_lackey]

“I thought the federal government building the US railway system to open the west was a very good one.”

The transcontinental railway did not open up the west. There was a gold rush going on in California at the time. By 1861 over 300,000 people had arrived in the state.

General Ulysses S. Grant-”I do not know what we would do in this great national emergency [Civil War] were it not for the gold sent from California.”