Posted on 08/21/2007 9:42:11 PM PDT by anymouse
TTC ping
The traffic here in SA is always congested and the politicians’ solution is to build a highway to Mexico. Wonderful.
NAFTA has created a U.S. trade deficit of $725.8 billion, 26% of that, almost $233 billion, is with China. The deficit is not only unsustainable, the Chinese government is now threatening to liquidate its $1.33 trillion of foreign reserves, including about $900 billion in U.S. treasury bonds, as a political weapon if the U.S. imposes trade sanctions to force revaluation of the Chinese currency, the Yuan. Such a move would cause our dollar to collapse!ping!
Hardbergers' push to toll 281 and north Loop 1604 is not an answer for the city's traffic. It would be a hinderance.
Beware of Chinese Communist supporters, free traders, low wage supporters and profits seekers, that have no regard for consequences. We are surrounded by traitors.
That we are.
>>When Congress approved NAFTA in 1993 with a simple majority of both chambers in a lame duck session, they ignored the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that the international treaty be approved by two-thirds of the U.S. Senate. Setting aside our U.S. Constitution has destabilized our borders with Mexico and Canada and created new and mounting crises.<<
1. NAFTA is not a treaty. Its legislation regulating international trade. Thus it is not co-equal with the constitution as supreme law of the land.
2. The appeals court judge who threw out the argument made in this article (which is a re-hash of the Steel worker’s union’s lawsuit) said even if it was a treaty it had been ratified under Fast Track while President Bush41 was in office.
3. The Supreme court declined to hear the appeal. This is settled law.
Beware of Chinese Communist supporters, free traders, low wage supporters and profits seekers, that have no regard for consequences. We are surrounded by traitors.
Beware of profit seekers? I’m a capitalist profit seeker and proud of it.
Try reading the entire comment "Mr. Proud Capitalist profit seeker".
Beware of Chinese Communist supporters, free traders, low wage supporters and profits seekers, that have no regard for consequences. We are surrounded by traitors.
I mostly travel inside 410 on the north side, so it’s a bit different. It’s not just rush hour, and not just 281 (which is shut down half the time). There are bottlenecks that pop up at certain times in certain places throughout the day. Critical points that you can’t work around if you have to get somewhere (not to mention after flooding). The problem is a lack of back-road interconnections around those critical points; there are large swaths of land that have no alternative route.
When Congress approved NAFTA in 1993 with a simple majority of both chambers in a lame duck session, they ignored the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that the international treaty be approved by two-thirds of the U.S. Senate. Setting aside our U.S. Constitution has destabilized our borders with Mexico and Canada and created new and mounting crises.
If it is unconstitutional, why isn’t there some constitutional, conservative lawyer taking this on? Or as I fear they are all liberals and don’t care about the Constitution.
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
i don’t care for the conspiracy theorists.
they confuse issues.
BTTT
“• Produce our own food; • Manufacture our own military equipment; and • Prevent foreign powers from obtaining access to our heartland.”
These SHOULD go without saying. How did We get to this point? Did We sell ourselves out?
When anyone writes about this subject, they have to have a degree of qualification and knowledge of the issue. Otherwise, they have no credibility.
In the case of this article, you only have to read as far as the second paragraph to realize that Cathy Adams doesn't know what the Texas Mobility Fund is and is not qualified.
Then you read down to the fourth paragraph and you see that Cathie Adams doesn't know the difference between a Public Private Partnership and a Comprehensive Development Agreement.
This woman/organization has money and staff. Whay doesn't she get her facts straight and write something credible?
The TTC would raise the cost of commuting in Texas to the point that it would become the single greatest expense of a household, after housing costs.
If you want to see congestion, come through Austin. I used to have an account in Kingsville, and frequently drove through S.A. at 5, and cruised through from 37 to 35 with little or no problem. By the time I got to Austin, 6:15 or so, it was a parking lot. I HATE the traffic in Austin, but luckily Round Rock now has about anything I used to have to go to Austin to get. My girlfriend lives in Houston, and those folks do it right. I-10 is 6+ lanes wide in some places. I love driving in Houston, lots of lanes and everybody hauls a$$.
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