Posted on 07/17/2010 5:59:50 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Democrats — Building a bridge to the 18th century.
Even in my ostensibly conservative county, one commissioner lamented the fact that county residents didn't want a millage rate hike, but still wanted "potholes filled and sheriff's deputies on patrol."
And he said it on the record, to a reporter, without any hint of irony.
Bicycles for the sheeple, all of them. Millions of them.
I recently read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the book from which Blade Runner was written. The movie was a bit short on the "why" of things like only cops having cars.
The book did better at filling in those details (as books usually do). It seems there was a nuclear war, and anybody with any brains had moved "off-world." (The assumption by the author was that we would never have a President like Obama who would terminate manned spaceflight, but I digress.) The only people left around were either nuke-addled, sterile simpletons ("specials"), cops or industrialists.
The fact that this was a post-apocalyptic setting was entirely lost in the movie, and would it would have helped to have spent a few minutes in the exposition explaining that detail. There was never daylight, and it was always raining, for examples.
LOL! Actually, you’re right. Obama’s great desire is to humiliate us and install the Third World here. It’s not fair, don’t you know, that we actually have done so well.
Yeah, me too. I’m stuck in a long, slow spot where Rand had to drop in the obligatory “love interest.” The writing style is as slow and tortured as it is, so I expect it will be a while before any decent pot development resumes....
You betcha, Vastie. Here in AZ, they pink-slipped half the teachers to ensure a "Yes" vote on a "temporary" 1% addition to the sales tax.
WTF are they doing with this mountain of money?
Then throw in billions state sales taxes etc....
WTF are they doing with the money?
Once the “fat czar” takes over, the bikes will be crucial to an American’s ability to work and get access to healthcare.
Well, they already have a "Bambulance" ready to get the sick to the hospital...
True, but understand that the government first began paving roads in the 1890s for bicycles - not automobiles.
We're leaving California on Wednesday heading to Minnesota...last time, we went I-40 to IKC and turned north on I-35 - both were horrible pothole traps.
This time, we're seriously considering hooking onto state highways at Tucumcari and meandering up northeast at least until Wichita.
But they paved them. Here in Florida, it was limerock, which produced a pretty hard surfacethat was actually drivable if maintained. And then the railroads came and everybody took the train to Miami, and finally, with the development of good roads, people started coming to Florida with their little travel trailers in tow. The rest is history.
I have no objection to bikes and I use one to go short distances because I live in a small town. Still, I can’t see myself pushing a bicycle along a gravel road...
IMHO, this stinks. Come up with a new surface, do something to improve things, but don’t react to fund cutting by removing the few services government actually should supply with our taxes (common roads), isolating folks who are obviously outside of the power center, such as it is, and giving it all to the leeches attached to the government teat.
I hear a story or two as well, but I don't get the daily local rag so I probably don't see the whole story. I know that a couple of our downtown workers have been robbed over the last couple of years. Our employees don't have the freedom to carry concealed, at least not on company property. They can do so off company property though.
I don't live in the city - I live in a nearby community that has a good record (and a lot of people with guns). It's interesting that at least two Chattanooga policemen live in my neighborhood, both with take-home cars. Seems that they don't want to live in 'Nooga either. I don't work downtown any more, and I only venture down there in the daytime or when in a large group.
On a side note, and in keeping with the nature of the thread, Tennessee in general has pretty good roads - much better than those in Cleveland, Ohio, where I used to live. And, most of them are paved!
LOL! Soon to be seen throughout CA, IL, NY and NJ.
I don’t mind connecting anything and everything by rail, but the problem is that if there is not population density, this isn’t going to happen. Also, I would doubt that this is a commuter area where large numbers of folks are going off to work in some nearby city every day, so it wouldn’t even be practical.
These are small local roads and have to be maintained so that people can get around. It’s ok if the county comes up with a better, cheaper replacement for asphalt, but it doesn’t sound as if they have. It sounds to me like they’re just dumping this neighborhood.
I just can’t imagine a feasible means of interconnecting all these little towns with rail as was suggested upthread.
An astronaut would be blinded by the sunlight glinting off the steel that would literally carpet the midwest.
Then there’s the unacknowledged problem of forcing more of us into the city. I’m about as dangerous as a butterfly in my tiny town but if I’m forced into the city I’ll be a shooting spree waiting to happen.
Everyone is already taxed to death.
The truth is the state public unions, who own the Democrat party, steal all the money for salaries, benefits, and pensions.....leaving almost nothing for the basic services (trash collection, road repair, snow removal, etc) that they should be performing.
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