Because letting Americans keep what they have doesn’t let the idiots in Congress play god with our lives. Congress and Obamy could care frigging less about the outcome. They just want the power.

Look up I-78 in PA…it took twenty years…just to decide the route.

I-99 isn’t even an Interstate.

Go figure.

Exactly. Why are we spending trillions of money we don’t have when the greater result would be from creating more money by allowing Americans to keep what they already have?!

I’m not sure I get your point. Ike INSISTED that the Highway Program should not increase the deficit. He wanted to do it with bonds, but Congress did it with new taxes — highway taxes.

But it did not increase the deficit. At least it wasn’t supposed to.

Which of course is in stunning contrast to Obama’s plan.

Obama now says deficits don’t matter. (Parroting Professor “Who?” Pollin.)

The best thing that could happen to this country that would have even a remote chance of actully happening would be to pass term limits (2 terms) on every national office.

The key government criminals are all multi-term thugs, and the beaurcracy is their ally. Every beaurocrat has a vested self-interest in continuation of whatever unnecessary program they get paid to screw up. And with elected officials also feeding at the trough, that is what has brought this country to the brink of ruin.

While the Democrats were jumping up and down over the Alaskan bridge to nowhere, under Obama you are going to see not just bridges to nowhere, but roads to nowhere. But not being one to complain, here is my plan. Since I live in Texas and finding illegals to work a road project is as easy as standing upright, I intend to bid to pave my driveway (I will call it a road to my garage where a number of illegal feral cats live). I will act as my own contractor, and the job could take as long as two years (it is really a two day job but I could extend it) for ten illegals. Not to mention that I could probably use a bridge at the ranch to get to my barn since I do have to drive over a bar ditch. That is another ten jobs for illegals. Then with cost overruns and reworking what was screwed up to begin with (think Big Dig in Boston or the Visitor’s Center in Washington, D.C.) I figure that within the next four years I will not have to worry about the stock market, the economy and by the time Obama leaves office I should be sitting really pretty. If I get busted for hiring illegals, I will claim stupidity and just send them to Trader’s Village (a flea market) in Houston to get new green cards and Social Security cards. Getting legitimate Social Security numbers should be a snap. I will just wait until Obama puts all our medical records on the internet, pay some dimwitted computer technology major at the University of Texas to hack in and wholla! I got me some Social Security number that are real. Hell, if the Chinese can hack into the Defense Department, a UT student shouldn’t have any problems.

But I think I will probably remain an honest, taxpaying citizen that will continue to fight Obama’s Looney Tunes policies by demanding my Texas Congressmen and Senators fight his New New Deal that will keep us in the recession for more years than necessary.

I don’t have an issue with Public Works projects that are needed and managed by the Private sector. The infrastructure does need to be refreshed periodically, and that is one of the few things I don’t mind paying taxes for.

But when Public Works projects are make work to keep people busy, then they are just another form of welfare, and they tax the future to give people money today….they are ponzi schemes that have to eventually end in disaster. Moreover, it labor that could be applied to economically useful projects.

Green jobs are classic socialist make-work efforts. If alternative energy was viable, private business would jump all over it. We might as well give people money to fight space aliens. The loonie analogy to the Apollo program is also delusional. We knew from the start the space effort had benefits. The only benefit of building windmills is to inflate Algore’s ego.

The money claimed needed to do the interstate highway project fell way short. By about 20 times. And many projects were scrapped due to cost and lack of money.

Obama states that the money given to each state for bridges and highways will be a “use it or lose it” policy. Now, it takes a real rocket scientist to figure out that is already the policy. What he doesn’t mention is that the states are required to pony up a part of the funding for every state highway project, which includes roads and bridges. So states will have to come up with the matching funds for those projects or lose the money. That should be interesting. As Jennifer Granholm, governor of Michigan, is one of the governors trying to belly up to the taxpayer trough to bail out her over regulated, over taxed state that is bleeding citizens like water flowing from a spigot, just where is she going to get the money for all those “roads and bridges” in Michigan? Will Obama give Michigan a break while states like Texas, who are in the black and even have a surplus due to good management, are put on the hook to pay for their portion? Remember, Texas has a Republican governor who is against the “bailout” for badly managed states like Michigan and California.

And just who will profit from all these “highway” jobs? Will it help the waitress at the local cafe? How about the guy who busts his tail everyday fixing someone’s toilet like Joe the Plumber? How does this help the woman who keeps the books at your local GM dealer that is facing losing her job because no one is buying a GM product? The simple answer: it doesn’t.

Who will this help? Perhaps we should look at who benefitted the most from the housing/construction boom? It wasn’t the average taxpaying American. It was the illegal from Guatamala who had managed to swim the Rio Grande undetected and work his way to Houston, Chicago, Erie, and Los Angeles. Those are construction jobs, as are highway project jobs. Drive past any highway construction job and check out whose is working there. Want to lay odds on how many (at least in my state) even speak English?

States do not build roads and bridges. They contract those projects out to companies like Dean Word (in Texas) and others. Those contractors are then responsible for hiring workers and since those projects are all subject to bidding, they will hire the most people they can at the least wage. That means lots of jobs for lots of “undocumented” workers. With the nomination of pro-illegal Janet Napolitano (governor of Arizona) for the Secretary of Homeland Security, I would not be surprised to see the Border Patrol ordered to hand out “Welcome to America” gift bags to border jumpers as Obama’s highway projects contractors need to fill thousands of construction jobs.

And while Obama makes this sound like a panacea to a bleeding job market, it will take years for design, property acquisition and right of ways, buraucratic red tape, permits and finally, the bidding process. Even if Obama serves two terms (God help us if he does) chances are that these projects won’t start rolling until AFTER he leaves office.

And true to his liberal roots, Obama is firmly convinced that the quality of education is tied to the quality of the school building. Upgrading school buildings, making sure they comply with his ideals of “green” must be a real source of joy to his former constituants in Chicago who are living in rat infested slums much like the ones owned by his former friend, Tony Rezko. While their children may get bitten by a rat during the night as they sleep, and they have no jobs and no hopes of ever getting their children out of the slum, at least the school will be politically correct. No more bad light bulbs. While their children are stuck in failing schools with teachers who have been pushed through by affirmative action rules at state universities (as his children go to a tony upscale private school) that are not qualified to pick up trash much less teach and create a desire to learn, the kids will be in “green” schools remodeled by (tah-dah) more illegals. I am sure it will not take the kids in southside Chicago long to learn that if they break a lightbulb, the school will have to be evacuated for the day in order to do enviromentally safe mercury “clean up”.

The more he opens his mouth, the more I am convinced that “The One” is totally clueless and we are totally screwed.