Sorry, Guys, the Highways Are My Fault
In typical government bureaucrat fashion, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters blames those stupid Americans (that’d be you and me) for driving less because gas prices are high — all as the cause for a $200 million shortfall in the federal highway trust fund. You see, we’re not buying as much gas (because we’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing by driving less, and because it’s pricey these days) as we should be, and that’s running the highway coffers dry.
Sorry, everybody. Guess I fucked up the highways.
Oh, wait, no I didn’t — shitloads of earmarks did as this article explains1 as this article explains2. The highway fund needs $8 billion to run properly (to fund all the repair and improvement projects along its lines). The current proposed budget has that, plus $24 fucking billion more in unrelated earmarks. That’s right folks, if you want your government to spend $8 billion to maintain our roads you’ll have to let it spend an extra $24 billion on the unrelated, shitty pet projects of each of our filthy, corrupt congresscritters.
Ugh.
Screw it. Let the roads crumble. Maybe litigation is the right way to clear out the cruft in our government — talking sure isn’t working, voting hasn’t done much, and the only people with weaponry are fucking loons up in the mountains (and we probably don’t want their “help”).
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I loathe linking to an Associated Press article, as these miserable bastards actually claim that even linking to their stories is a copyright law violation when they’re in a bad enough mood. I won’t dare quote the article — that might get me slapped with the first lawsuit of the year stemming from my blog
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Update: I found a New York Times article to replace the AP one. That should dodge the litigation bullet
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