Posted on 07/08/2014 3:53:47 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
What about all that TARP money that was supposed to go for shovel-ready jobs and infrastucture? More RAT lies.
the highways, bridges, etc. were all repaired with the stimulus money - I distinctly heard him say he was going to do it. Congress certainly gave him enough to do the job.
Highway Funding = Union Payoffs
Great point! I am guessing their union buddies need more jobs?
All it needs is a rider to ban any of the highway funds being used for anything but the highway.
lol
Gas tax revenue is down because people aren’t driving as much because gas prices are too high.
Senator Murray needs to resign...in shame.
Patty Murray-the stupidest woman in the U.S. Senate.
Eclipsed overall only by Little Bobby Casey (D-PA) who has a barely measurable IQ .... but a powerful (in PA) name.
Everything is political to Democrats. They seek no practical solutions that work.
pass more spending to supply Obama and his minions with cash. jeez..what happened to all that other cash we spent?
Every time I hear about our infrastructure needing funds, I scream STIMULUS money took care of that, didn’t it?
I answer myself - STUPID QUESTION!
When is this country going to wake up, for pity sake?????
Otherwise, note that President James Madison had vetoed a bill made by the 14th(?) Congress to build roads and canals basically for the same purpose as interstate highways, giving Congress a quick lesson as to how to read its Section 8-limited powers in his constitutinally required veto letter to Congress.
Veto of federal public works bill
And with all due respect to the family and supporters of the late President Eisenhower, he wrongly signed into law the same kind of bill which allowed Congress to tax and spend to build the nation's freeway system.
Interstate Highway System
But it remains that the states have never amended the forgotten, but often politically referenced Constitution to grant Congress the specific power to tax and spend for such purposes. And I'm sure that the states would have ratified such an amendment if the post-FDR era 1956 Congress had proposed it.
Citizens can sleep in the bed that they have made for themselves concerning unconstitutionally big federal government.
Why?
Do illegals drive here?
mrs murray needs to act like a responsible adult.
Only thing she knows is to raise the gas tax.
Highway Trust Fund = Union slush fund.
Wish I could pull shenanigans like this with my personal bufget.
This would be the same one time stimulus money that is still in the budget since 2009. Remember that what goes in the budget never gets cut out of the budget. So my question is what have they been doing with this extra $1 Trillion every year...
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