Journal damn_registrars's Journal: Republican governors versus infrastructure 8
... who needs it? not us! Let those punks fix their own damn roads, right?
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Republican governors versus infrastructure
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
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Shitty newspaper. They need to fire their retarded web designers. I avoid USA Toady most of the time. It's retards like the ones that make me keep my speakers shut off at work.
If anybody at the Toady is reading this, LEAVE ME A LITTLE SCREEN, OK?
Newspapers have the worst web sites on the internet.
As to Republican Governors, that one is especially bad. The last Republican Governor we had in Illinois just got out of prison.
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It's retards like the ones that make me keep my speakers shut off at work.
The reliance on using video to convey news is one of my top pet peeves in general. Can't someone just give me a damned transcript? Unless the video features John Moschitta Jr., I could read the transcript much faster than it could be narrated on video.
Newspapers have the worst web sites on the internet.
I definitely agree on that one. The US Today website is atrocious and even using adblock doesn't seem to help. The problem in part is that newspapers can't make money selling the dead tree editions any more so they are trying to figure out a way to retai
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All the politicians in Illinois are as crooked as a mountain road. Thompson (not a bad Governor as far as Illinois goes) was the attorney for both of our last two Governors iinm, Blago (Democrat) still in prison.
The Feds busted them both, Ryan (R) and Blago (D).
This is an incredibly corrupt state. When I was a teenager working at a drive-in theater my boss had the Cahokia cops paid off, Sergent Antoff chewed me out for paying a speeding ticket I got in Dupo. The Chief of police, Merle Justice (later St Clai
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But you really need to tart this up, don't you think? I mean if this isn't blown into full-on Pawlenty levels of disregard for reality [politifact.com] (in much the same vein as ObamaCare), then I shan't be impressed.
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I mean if this isn't blown into full-on Pawlenty levels of disregard for reality (in much the same vein as ObamaCare), then I shan't be impressed.
The observation that the plates were important is aside from the fact that the infrastructure investments were reduced every year that Teflon Tim was in office. His decisions directly contributed to the collapse of the 35W bridge. Every year the budget for maintenance went down, as did the budget for inspections. Inspectors had to examine more bridges in less time, and they knew there was less money available for repairs.
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This is because there is actual budgetary reality involved, and the throat you want to choke is close to the hand that casts the ballot. This is a Good Thing.
Among the laundry list of woes in this country is the decoupling of federal budgeting from reality, so you have the spectacle of
The $787 billion "stimulus" was supposed [investors.com] to stimulate all of America equally, right? As it turns out, as in George Orwell's "Animal Farm," all areas may be equal, but some are politically more equal than others.
A report in USA Today says that "billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places that supported President Obama in last year's presidential election."
The Treasury/Federal Reserve Duo keeps the game afoot. In Systems Engineering terms, this is called running "open loop". I think in Biochemis
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I'm actually strongly in favor of holding governors accountable for infrastructure.
Too bad that almost never happens when a governor is in a state with problems and they happen to have an (R) after their name. Governors with (D) get run up the flag pole but those with (R) are celebrated and paraded about as the solutions to all that ails us.
A report in USA Today says that "billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places that supported President Obama in last year's presidential election."
The question though that needs to be asked is whether the aid was delivered to reward voting in a particular way, or because of the structure of those states and their need for aid. Notice that the states mentioned are often prone to some of the mo
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Too bad that almost never happens when a governor is in a state with problems and they happen to have an (R) after their name. Governors with (D) get run up the flag pole but those with (R) are celebrated and paraded about as the solutions to all that ails us.
Wasn't I just getting taken to the woodshed for this sort of argumentation about shortages of medicines?
Does "The Bailout Act of 2010" pertain to this [govtrack.us]?