posted on July 11, 2007 06:34:41 PM
Helen, there is now even more madness and anger since Clarksville last posted.
And I can't help but notice you are becoming less nationalistic and patriotic, Linda_K. You once said Walmart, where most everything is made in China, was one of your favorite stores and now you aren't objecting to your ports and bridges and highways being owned and controlled by foreign entities. Do you think they will keep your country more secure than your own government can?
Right now I'm enjoying the fun thought of you trying to control all your C&Ps that you've been doing nonstop for years, Linda. Just think, you have to behave nicely for your buddy Etexbill and may even have to find a hobby to amuse yourself with at the risk of being told by him to go find one - like that would ever happen! LOL
posted on July 11, 2007 07:08:37 PM
I didn't expect that you would answer my question about your approval of foreign ownership in your country and how it may affect your security, Linda_K - seeing as you can't run and find a C&P for an answer like you usually do.
posted on July 11, 2007 11:21:41 PM
"""As I understand this 'super hwy'...it's privately owned. So there shouldn't be much, if any, gov. regulation. So if the owners what to charge a toll fee they have every right to do so.
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It's all mingo has.....OLD, old, old subjects to bring up. Then she can't figure out why few of even her own 'admirers' [like kiara] respond so seldom. lol"""
Yes, the highway will be privately owned by Spain....and that's where the money will go (of course a LOT of the money will go to Guilianni and other crooked Republicans in the form of payoffs).
I see you like the idea of foreign countries owning so much of the US without "gov. regulation"....what a safe idea!!!!
It's not old news, it's happening right now. It's easy to see how you can't figure THAT out...you can't even figure out how to spell "quiet"
And, how did you determine that "Then she can't figure out why few of even her own 'admirers' [like kiara] respond so seldom.""
Crystal ball? How would you know what I figure out or even think about figuring out? Or care to figure out?
The answer is, you don't.
posted on July 12, 2007 12:08:41 AM
Mingo, notice how Linda_K whines that I shouldn't spend so much time focusing on her yet she comes in here and the very first thing she did was focus on me?
And now she's even keeping track of how often I respond to you and judging the reasons why I may not respond so I thought I'd drop in again before bedtime to keep up the pace.
posted on July 12, 2007 07:01:33 AM
Yup, Kiara, it's too funny but just more of linduh's rampant double standards and more of the neocon's total lack of logic.
I see the John Wayne wannabe has "moseyed" on after cleaning up the town....
posted on July 13, 2007 12:25:48 AM
NAFTA Highway and Privatization of Roads - Politicians Beware!
By Paul Weyrich
Thursday, May 31, 2007
One question has always eluded me as I have examined public policy questions these past four decades. That is why when propositions are presented to the public so many people are outraged yet the legislators who approve them have absolutely no clue.
The latest example of this is the Immigration Bill. Both Republicans and Democrats who negotiated it expressed utter shock at the public reaction. When many of us worked on the Panama Canal Treaty, Senators who unexpectedly were defeated in both 1978 and 1980 could not believe the public anger over their votes. I recall the statement of Senator Thomas J. McIntyre (D-NH) when confronted with outrage over his vote for the Panama Treaty. He allowed as how he was elected to use his judgment and he knew better than the voters of New Hampshire. An Allegheny Airlines co-pilot, Gordon J. Humphrey, who never had held office at any level in New Hampshire, became Senator Humphrey in the 1978 election.
I suspect that a number of Senators, especially the Republicans, will not be in the next Congress. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) had no likely opposition before his work on that Immigration Bill. Now there is talk about finding a first-tier opponent for the November 2008 election.
I mention this because there are two issues on the horizon which are certain to outrage voters but will no doubt confound the legislators which approve of the issues under consideration.
The first is the so-called NAFTA Highway. I am a Commissioner for the major study taking place to make recommendations for fifty years forward on surface transportation. I raised the issue of the NAFTA Highway with the Department of Transportation. I was told, "Not us".
Who then? Why are there states which are looking toward interstate compacts? The idea is to approve of a 12-lane highway, six lanes in each direction, to run from Mexico to Kansas City, then in due course all the way to Canada.
A 12-lane highway built for trucks is bound to raise the ire of the voter. Yet I am willing to wager (although I am not a betting man) that state legislators who might vote for this monstrosity will be absolutely astounded by the negative public reaction. And if some of them are defeated in the process, so more the bewilderment.
Just wait and watch it happen. Meanwhile, there is another issue, again at the state level, which is confounding its proponents. My old friend Mitch Daniels, White House Political Director in the Reagan days, Director of the Office of Management and Budget during the first Bush term and (more relevant to Indiana) Chief of Staff to Senator Richard G. Lugar when Lugar was Mayor of Indianapolis, was elected Governor of Indiana while Bush was being re-elected in 2004.
Daniels made some mistakes but he was reasonably popular. Then Daniels, a good free-enterpriser, proposed to the Republican-controlled Legislature to sell the Indiana Toll Road to the Macquarie Infrastructure Group/Cintra for $3.8 billion.
It appeared to be a good deal for Indiana. The buyer would be required to perform all maintenance. With rising spending requirements for Medicaid, education and other matters, the sale seemed to be, in the words of George Tenant, a slam dunk. continued...
posted on July 13, 2007 12:30:12 AM
Yet when the sale went through Daniels suddenly appeared to be in big trouble. It is hard to identify why the voters were so angry with Daniels. It appeared to be a vague feeling that having invested the money to build the toll road they thought of it as theirs and didn't want it owned by someone else. Facilities such as the Indiana Toll Road, however, are being sold all over. The Chicago Skyway Toll Road also has been sold. The difference has been that the Chicago sales have not been accompanied by the severe political fallout as was the case in Indiana.
Perhaps voters trust big-city liberals more than they do conservative Republicans with connections to big business. Anyway, the Pocahontas Parkway has been sold for $611 million by the Parkway Association and the Virginia Department of Transportation to Transurban with zero political fallout. Virginia has had back-to-back Democratic Governors.
Despite Daniels' dip in popularity the Indiana Lottery is up for sale with a price tag of from $3 to $5 billion. Perhaps voter attachment to a lottery will be less than it was to a toll road.
Meanwhile, if you ever have had the necessity to drive northerly to New York or New England, you may well have had the opportunity to use the New Jersey Turnpike and perhaps the Garden State Parkway. It along with the Atlantic City Expressway is for sale by the very liberal Governor Jon Corzine of New Jersey. A cool $10 to $49 billion will make you the owner.
The question is why? It appears that such investors find the guaranteed stability of a highway-related facility quite attractive. On the other hand, as voters in Indiana have demonstrated, there could be a political price to pay with the sale.
So far it would appear that there currently are more properties available than there are buyers. So it is not clear how the privatization idea will play out. In any case, legislators who vote in favor of such an idea had better be prepared. In Texas both Houses of the Legislature, controlled by the Republicans, have voted a two-year moratorium in privatizing state toll roads. Do they know something about the feelings of the voters?
Paul M. Weyrich is Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation.
posted on July 18, 2007 11:56:38 PM
I was getting together a letter about this issue to send to my senator and other representatives and came up with some questions.
Who will build it? The usual Halliburton(cheney)company ?
Who will provide the labor(jobs).
How will it be crossed...tunnels, bridges?
Who will build the cross over infrastucture?
If, as some cement head mentioned,
(someone who obviously thinks it's a great idea to have a foreign country own a huge strip of land running through the heart of the U.S.),
it's privately owned so the owner can do anything they want...
then what's to keep them from NOT LETTING people cross the highway?
OR charging a big fat FEE to cross THEIR highway ?
Will the environment as per bushit be ignored as ususal?
How long will it take for those millions who will have their homes, land, and businesses stolen by "eminent domain" to get REALLY pissed off?
posted on July 19, 2007 11:36:24 AM
Haha! You didn't answer the real questions on the highway...you unskillfully avoided them
But I now realize why you never start a thread...you're so insecure you're scared to death(oh big brave John Wayne wannabe)that no one will post to it ! LOL!!!!!!
posted on July 19, 2007 08:37:50 PM
Quoting mingo:
"Haha! You didn't answer the real questions on the highway...you unskillfully avoided them"
Quoting mingo: "But I now realize why you never start a thread...you're so insecure you're scared to death(oh big brave John Wayne wannabe)that no one will post to it ! LOL!!!!!!"
Quoting you, mingo."You're projecting your reactions on to me...."
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You're projecting your reactions onto me, mingo. But you can't see that, can you?
And talk about unskilfully avoiding questions, I see you didn't bother to answer on the thread where you posted about Tom Delay' redistricting for the reason that Texas is now all Republican. Couldn't think of an answer to that one could you??
You are hilarious, with your lol and haha's and name calling, and sickening to boot.
Nobody else thinks you are funny but yourself, mingo. And you accuse others of the very things that you do repeatedly.
I don't start many threads, because I don't want to. I'd rather comment on your foolish C & P's.
As for the highway answers, what is it in them that is so hard for you to understand?
posted on July 19, 2007 11:51:43 PM
""You're projecting your reactions onto me, mingo. But you can't see that, can you?"""
Just can't think of anything to say but parrot what I say ?...TSK TSK TSK Where exactly did i project?
"""And talk about unskilfully avoiding questions, I see you didn't bother to answer on the thread where you posted about Tom Delay' redistricting for the reason that Texas is now all Republican. Couldn't think of an answer to that one could you??""
I can't be on here 24/7 like you are . I answered with my C&P about that crook DeLIE, a Texas legend. If you don't agree it doesn't make me wrong
"""You are hilarious, with your lol and haha's and name calling, and sickening to boot. """
(Sheesh! Make up your mind )
"""Nobody else""(oh, all-knowing one!) ""thinks you are funny but yourself, mingo. And you accuse others of the very things that you do repeatedly.
I don't start many threads, because I don't want to."""
And I post the way I want to...
"" I'd rather comment on your foolish C & P's. """
Ya, that "get a hobby" was pithy.
"""As for the highway answers, what is it in them that is so hard for you to understand? """
Well, they'd be easier to understand IF there were any.
posted on July 20, 2007 06:42:14 AM
"I can't be on here 24/7 like you are . I answered with my C&P about that crook DeLIE, a Texas legend. If you don't agree it doesn't make me wrong ..."
Your posts are hilarious mingo, and full of the stuff that you accuse others of. If you will bother to count your posts and the hours that you are here, you'll find that you are wrong, (or could it be called lying, as you accuse others of doing)
posted on July 20, 2007 06:52:38 AM
"Exactly where and what did you prove me wrong about, Dukey ?"
I see you didn't take that reading comprehension course, yet.
Have a good day, I've got other things to do, such as take care of the registered longhorns, on the ranch, with the horses, while being retired. All paid for.
etexbill
posted on July 20, 2007 06:52:38 AM
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"Exactly where and what did you prove me wrong about, Dukey ?"
I see you didn't take that reading comprehension course, yet."""
Translated from neocon weaseloutspeak to the truth:
Etex, "I have no proof".
Sheesh! Do they go to school for that ???They all seem to use it as an excuse!
