Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
BOHICA
Hold onto your wallets!
The chairman of the budget-writing House Appropriations Committee said a call from a reporter was his first notice of the agency's move.
"I'm kind of surprised they didn't talk to us about that," said Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa. "You'd think ... before they announced it they'd talk to the appropriators.
"It's almost to the point you wonder if the agency hasn't got so big, they're another branch of government we're not aware of," said Chisum, who previously has taken issue with such agency decisions as its projected expenditure of $7 million to $9 million to promote the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor plan and toll roads.
Stunning! A responsible government agency seeks to stay within its means and the 1st word from the overseeing government is, "Hey, you can't spend less than we let you! If we want to run big deficits, the by god, we will run big deficits. Don't YOU be telling us what big deficits we can or can't run. This is our government money, by god, and if you are NOT going to live within your means unless we say you can live within your means. Got it? We run the joint. Now go borrow and spend until we say otherwise."
Just stunning.
They must be saving up money for the freeway they will be building for Bush's thousands upon thousands of Mexican truck drivers.
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Have they already run through all the money they’ve gotten from selling state highways? And what about the billions in borrowing that the voters just approved?