Yes, I knew it was true. I just wanted Jim to justify 21 million bucks of nonsense.
So when we see the wasteful spending of the Obama administration, we still want to blame Bush for the deficit. ROTFLMAO
Do you suppose Palin ming have resigned because she wanted to fight the stupidity of the Democrats? No, you think Palin is stupid. You believe anyone who takes responsibility for their actions is stupid. Right?
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That is plumb stupid poetse (you, neither Palin nor Obama). The FAA spends roughly $140,000,000 per year in Alaska for airport construction, maintenance, and upgrades. This, in a state where the primary transportation to roughly 70% of the state is via air. How much did the Federal government spend on Interstate Highways in Texas (I'll bet it was a lot more than $140,000,000)?
And further, these line items were primarily the responsibility of Representative Don Young (R) and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R). Furthermore, Alaska has the highest per capita investment of Federal dollars of any state in the union, which includes all of the Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II years. Yet, it is a state that is one of the most Republican in the nation. go figure.
Jim...
[edit note: the article in the Fairbanks News Miner was pretty accurate]
This message has been edited by Avalon99 on Jul 13, 2009 8:57 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. New Mexico, Colorado and Texas are applying for federal funds to study the viability of a high-speed rail system in the hopes of putting new life into passenger railroads in the Intermountain West.
Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., said Thursday the 720-mile high-speed rail system would travel at speeds of 110 mph to more than 200 mph from El Paso, Texas, through Albuquerque to Denver.
"The West was connected to the rest of the country by railroads. Our history is until the 1880s and the coming of the railroads, we were isolated," Udall said. "You could view (the proposed high-speed rail corridor) as a second wave which revives the railroads that we've allowed to wither."
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Udall, a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said the three states will submit a joint pre-application Friday for up to $5 million to pay for the study.
Congress has authorized up to 11 high-speed rail corridors nationwide. Ten have been designated, and the three states hope to become home to the 11th.
"Today, you cannot get from Albuquerque to Denver by rail without changing trains in Los Angeles or Chicago, and our regional railways run from East to West, with no North-South connections," Udall said.
Richardson and Udall said such a rail system would bring business and tourism growth to the region.
"High-speed rail is the future of our country and is going to be a major boost to the economic vitality of the cities and states along its routes," Richardson said in a news release.
It's too early to say where the stops on the proposed route would be, said Udall's spokeswoman, Marissa Padilla.
New Mexico started a commuter rail service in July 2006 that connects Belen, south of Albuquerque, to Santa Fe.
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter said his state has long been talking about high-speed rail.
"There is a great deal of movement of people, goods and services along the Front Range and the entire Colorado-Texas-New Mexico corridor, and it is high time Congress designate a Western corridor," Ritter said.
Texas is already home to one of the designated high-speed rail routes, the South Central Corridor. It has a proposed hub at Dallas-Fort Worth and spokes extending to Austin and San Antonio, Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and Little Rock, Ark.
"Improving and expanding our transportation infrastructure is vitally important in a state that grows by more than 1,000 people each day," Texas Gov. Rick Perry said.
The Federal Railroad Administration will decide which region gets the 11th high-speed rail corridor designation based on the strength of their applications, FRA spokesman Rob Kulat said.
New Mexico, Colorado and Texas may have competition. Kulat declined to say how many pre-applications for feasibility studies the FRA has received so far.
"Quite a few are in already, but the number is going to grow by tomorrow," he said.
Final applications for the grants are due Aug. 24, he said.
The nation's 10 existing high-speed rail corridors were authorized from 1991 to 2000. They are located in major metropolitan areas along the East Coast and in the South, the Chicago area, the Pacific Northwest and California. They are in varying stages of development.
In April, President Barack Obama launched a renewed effort to develop a national network of high-speed passenger rail lines, identifying $8 billion in federal stimulus funds.
The problem is that if it is already budgeted, it cannot be stimulus money because the stimulus money is money outside the budget.
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It is? I don't think so. Where are you getting that assertion? What are you arguing here?
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And, of course, Palin accepted it and realized what a cheap trick Obama and the Democrats are pulling.
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What does that mean? Palin didn't realize that the airport reconstruction was a "cheap trick", but thought that energy programs were? [this, from a Republican governor who proposed, and got passed a $1200 PAYMENT to every man, woman, and child in Alaska last year to offset higher energy costs... and proposed and got passed a $360,000,000 weatherization and rebate program for the entire state that my agency administers?.... you really think she's being consistent here?]
Every phase of the government has a budget for the year. It was budgeted in the 2009 budget by the Bush administration. Therefore, the money should not have been stimulus money since that airport and every other airport was budgeted in the regular budget.
Spendiong more for government projects does nothing to stimulate the economy. The private sector is the part that needs to recover. That is simple. Foolishness by the Obama administration.
Every phase of the government has a budget for the year. It was budgeted in the 2009 budget by the Bush administration. Therefore, the money should not have been stimulus money since that airport and every other airport was budgeted in the regular budget.
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Well, I wish that you would just address the topic of discussion and quit veering off into smaller and smaller minutae.
Congress authorized this addition to the Federal Budget for FY 2009 (which ends September 30, 2009) ... and it will continue to be part of the Federal Budget thereafter (unless amended by Congress, of course).
Jim..
This message has been edited by Avalon99 on Jul 13, 2009 9:40 PM
Sure, Jim, the goverment gets all of that money from the taxpayers and believes the taxpayers will prosper. They won't because the money is not capitlizing businesses in this country.l they are sending the jobs overseas.
Sure, Jim, the goverment gets all of that money from the taxpayers and believes the taxpayers will prosper. They won't because the money is not capitlizing businesses in this country.l they are sending the jobs overseas.
Time to wke up. We are going bankrupt.
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<sigh> ... g'night poetse. sleep tight.
Jim..
[edited to add: Was WWII a "government project"?]
This message has been edited by Avalon99 on Jul 13, 2009 9:49 PM
that Obama is spending 21 million on an airport in Alaska in a town of 46 residents?
Did Palin ever do anything that stupid?
Yes she did. After having been elected to the office of Governor of her state..... she quit. She just up and quit! She couldn't be bothered with serving out her term, instead she quit!
I hope she is happy with her decision to quit because I cannot imagine a scenario where anyone would trust her "NOT" to quit again. She will now and forever be branded "the quitter!" Because that's what she is.
I hope she is happy with her decision to quit because I cannot imagine a scenario where anyone would trust her "NOT" to quit again. She will now and forever be branded "the quitter!" Because that's what she is.
Interesting. If she's so toast, so finito, so done, then why are the media *STILL* totally obsessed with her? Why are Democrats of all stripes still lining up to get in some more licks? 'Splain that to me... The Left *fears* her with some visceral, animalistic hatred that drives *them* to be unable to let it go! She *quit*! Why can't *they*???
What person in public life has ever had her children and family so maligned and attacked so brutally, explicitly and disrespectfully?
Was it Jimmy Carter with his strange little Amy? Or Lyndon B. Johnson with his Bird girls? Or Nixon or Ford or Reagan? Ron Reagan Jr. contributed to his own ridiculousness by appearing in his tighty whities in a parody of Tom Cruise. Jenna and Barbara Bush got a little burnt by reports of underage drinking, but that was quickly stifled. Cindy McCain was trashed for her pain-killer addiction and Teresa Carey for her weird campaign remarks. Barack Obama issued a stern warning to anyone who would ridicule Michelle for her declared shame over the country, but (rightly) not a word was said about his precious girls. Wives and husbands active on the campaign trail are fair game, but not children. Thats the way it has always been and thats the way it should remain.
Too bad the door was opened wide for debasement, and ridicule, and gutter humor for not just one of Sarah Palins children, but for at least three of them. Within days of her selection, Trig was not her baby, but her teenage daughters. Then the gleeful news, that Bristol was, in fact, pregnant and unmarried. Throw in a tasteless remark on SNL about Todd committing incest with his girlsthings that should not be spoken, much less joked, about have become the norm for the vermin class who hate anyone who loves and tries to represent healthy, whole families.
When the search for sexual indiscretions, pictures, photos, came up short on Palin, she was mocked for her beauty, her voice, her sense of humor and alleged lack of knowledge of public policy. Her interviews were edited, the interviewers powered up to make her look foolish, her McCain handlers became her worst enemies the people she trusted stabbed her in the back.
But the children David Letterman described Governor Sarah Palin, the ultimate beautiful lady, mother of 5, grandmother of 1, wife of a man who loves her dearly, dressing like a slutty flight attendant. But to go yet lower, joked about her 14-year-old daughter being knocked up by Alex Rodriguez at a Mets Game. His apology was that he thought it was the 18-year-old daughter, the young single mom, and not the younger. Only a sick mind could tell the difference.
And then the mockery of Trig, baby Trig Down syndrome Trig. Altering his photo blogging inexpressibly profane remarks about his birth and leaving them on the Web site for over week, despite complaints. Perhaps this was the last straw.
I think much of it [her familys counsel to step down] had to do with the kids seeing their baby brother mocked by some pretty mean-spirited adults recently, Palin explained in her resignation speech. By the way, sure wish folks could ever, ever understand that we all learn so much from someone like TrigI know he needs me, but I need him even more what a child can offer to set priorities rightthat time is precious the world needs more Trigs, not fewer, she said.
Its no mystery why Sarah Palin stepped down now to stop the waste of time and money for the Alaskan people and to quench the infliction of pain on her family. If the love of the governor for her state and the mother for her children causes her to step down and become a quitter, then may her kind of quitting increase.
Palin: Why She Left is No Mystery
Sandy Rios
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
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You know.... maybe the Letterman disgrace was the final straw for Palin.
And I'm not talking about Mrs. Palin.
If I was Mr. Palin, I would have told the Governor of Alaska one night, "Honey, I can put up with a lot of crap from people. After all, I work in some tough environments with tough men. Here's where I feel some pain, though. This Letterman character... He can do or say just anything he wants to about our family, and get away with it. I walk around all day with this anger in my heart. I should be able to just deal with Letterman man-to-man about this. Or deal with any other ass who attacks us. But as long as you are the Governor, I can't. I want to be the man you married."
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We'll be friends until we're old and senile. Then we'll be new friends.
-Anon.
It was budgeted in the 2009 budget by the Bush administration.
So why are you blaming Obama?
The fact is the Bush administration anticipoated a deficit ofd $495 billion. Everything was going great guns with the Stock Market at it highest in history and we had low unemployment.
What happened? the Democrats invaded Congress in 2006.
Recession causes reduction in revenue and the stimulus bill is passed top fight the recession.
Therefore, Obama is responsible for the spending. The spending is increasing the deficit. He could have let the businesses fail and the market recover slowly on it's own. However he decided to spend money in the stimulus. His deficit and not Bush's.
t was budgeted in the 2009 budget by the Bush administration.
So why are you blaming Obama?
Because he really really doesn't have a clue! He honest to God has no clue!
Not true CJ. The deficit for the year was 495 billion. The government could have not spent one more dime and the deficit would have been close to half a trillion.
NOW PAY CLOSE ATTENTION: The money that Obama is spending is the deficit created by Obama. It is the Bush budget but Obama is spending the money; therefore, it is Obama's deficit.
Get a clue, CJ. You know nothing about budgets or economics. You are a political hack.
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