Posted on 07/20/2010 8:34:11 AM PDT by mick
Paved roads, historical emblems of American achievement, are being torn up across rural America and replaced with gravel or other rough surfaces as counties struggle with tight budgets and dwindling state and federal revenue. State money for local roads was cut in many places amid budget shortfalls.
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There you go tryin to be all sensible again!
“Sometimes you have to chose what’s more important: paving the roads, or feeding, clothing, housing, imprisoning, medical for the illegal Mexicans who do the jobs Americans on unemployment won’t do.”
Spot on. At an average of $30k in taxes per illegal I’m a guessing we could have nicely paved roads down to every outhouse in the country. Hell, we could even afford to have SEIU thugs install the asphalt and still come out ahead. I wonder why we don’t do it?
Not in my town! We are tearing up perfectly good sidewalks and replacing them....all in the name of stimulus cash!
Obummer’s “Recovery Act” signs are plastered all over town. UGH!
The waste really ticks me off
Right out of the pages of Atlas Shrugged. It amazes me how prescient Ayn Rand was.
***40 miles of dirt roads, I bet you swore you felt like the car was losing bolts and screws!***
Ever been to Sitting Bull Falls near Carlsbad, NM or left Counselor, NM and headed for Chaco Canyon?
Ever tried driving the back roads through the Ozarks?
There are lots of unpaved backroads out there!
***Not in my town! We are tearing up perfectly good sidewalks and replacing them....all in the name of stimulus cash!***
That was also done back in the 1930s. the sidewalks were all stamped...WPA (We Piddle Around) as my grandmother used to say!
I hate when the press does this... they find some obscure example of something and say..” Some towns are tearing up their paved roads...” Implying that many are doing it. It took me 15 min. but the town of spiritwood ND has barley 100 people in it. This does not make a trend, and barely worth noting.
Yea, but we get to keep the mineral rights!
I was thinking of Children of Men (the book). In that distopia the British government's sole concern is managing the efficient demise of civilization due to the end of human fertility.
They stopped maintaining and then tore up roads and engaged in forced euthanasia. Chilling stuff.
Propaganda by the MSM to justify some government tax increase.
Thank GOD that zero has this country moving in the “right” direction!!!
/extreme sarc
I have only owned one house in my life that was on a paved road, and I swore I would never own another one. If they ever try to pave my road I will file suit to block it.
Once a road get paved it turns into a drag strip and urban yuppies want to buy a tiny lot and build build a house. Then they bitch about everything normal in rural life.
LOL, whats all the fuss over dirt & gravel roads? I think they make far more sense than hot tops, in the end requiring far less inputs. I lived on one in NH and 2 or 3 times/yr it would get graded and sometimes stone aded. The road was never terrible even tho it had water issues. In fact it was better most of the time than hot tops. Those required more expensive inputs and repair procedures so maint was done only when dire. Give me a dirt/gravel road any day. Oh, and they dont slick up nearly so bad as a hot top.
In many cases product like “EarthZyme” and “TeraZyme” can replace ashphalt for lower traffic roads. The soil content must be suitable.
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Sure have. Well, not the Ozarks but the New Mexico and Chaco roads. (displaced Arizonian in exile in North Carolina...my soul aches for the southwest)
What we are seeing are the effects of the bursting of a debt bubble and debt deflation.
But, turning paved roads to gravel, that'll punish the skinflints. It probably doesn't even save any money. Do they layoff highway workers?
This action will destroy any businesses located on the gravel roads, thus further reducing tax revenue. It is punitive, plain and simple.
that book irritated me to the point i just wanted to throw it out the window but for some odd reason i couldn’t. i had to finish it and that just made me mad. and i agree there were some chilling aspects of the book.
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