Is your state being screwed? Mine is. considering how the elections turned out this time we deserve it.
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/earmark-donor-states/
Is Your State being Screwed?
I live in Virginia (63%) but have a weekend place in West Virginia (626.6%). This weekend we went up to the cabin and came back on "Corridor H", a Robert Byrd pork barrel project.
Because Virginia refused to build a road to connect this boondoggle to I-81, the eastern end of it ends at Wardensville, WV, connected to Virginia by a winding mountain road called Rt 55. At present the western terminus is Knobley Road in Mineral County, a few miles from our cabin. Damned nice of Byrd to put in our private 4-lane superhighway thru the mountains. It literally goes from nowhere to nowhere, by way of Moorefield. It is not unusual to be the only car in sight.
It is a beautiful piece of engineering, built like an Interstate Highway except that it is not limited access. Deep cuts thru the mountains, spectacular bridges. But the layout is like a drunken snake. It was obviously built to burn money, not to serve any practical purpose.
http://www.wvcorridorh.com/route/lrgmap.html
Because Virginia refused to build a road to connect this boondoggle to I-81, the eastern end of it ends at Wardensville, WV, connected to Virginia by a winding mountain road called Rt 55. At present the western terminus is Knobley Road in Mineral County, a few miles from our cabin. Damned nice of Byrd to put in our private 4-lane superhighway thru the mountains. It literally goes from nowhere to nowhere, by way of Moorefield. It is not unusual to be the only car in sight.
It is a beautiful piece of engineering, built like an Interstate Highway except that it is not limited access. Deep cuts thru the mountains, spectacular bridges. But the layout is like a drunken snake. It was obviously built to burn money, not to serve any practical purpose.
http://www.wvcorridorh.com/route/lrgmap.html
Evidently socialism is not as popular in Texas as it once was. You should be thankful. Texas is attracting business. Which means you will come out of the depression faster than other states that are losing businesses to your state.AcesHigh wrote:mine has ALWAYS been screwed by the federal government. No wonder we had a 10 yr long revolution from 1835 to 1845 in which we even declared independence.
and in this october elections, we screwed ourselves with the new governor...
But if that makes you unhappy you could move to California. To balance in some small way all the Californians coming to Texas.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
exactly, I am talking about Rio Grande do Sul State. The topic never specified it should be about US states.Betruger wrote:IIRC AcesHigh is from Brazil.
at MSimon for thinking I am a socialist. In fact, I am exactly complaining the fact we elected a socialist governor.here is a photo of the mofo
feel free to throw some virtual tomatoes on this clown
ah ok. Ive heard something about this Texas revolution (american families immigrated to Mexico territory, colonized it and then fought against Mexico, right?), but I didnt know the date.Betruger wrote:Gotta give him some credit. Sounds like he recalled Texas' Revolution of 1835 off hand, and then it's not hard to get false positive from "october elections and new governor".
Did it also last 10 years like the revolution I am talking about? (Rio Grande do Sul split from the centralist brazilian Imperial Government and its burdensome taxes... even the italian hero Garibaldi fought in this war, in fact, it was here that he met his wife)
Where I live I've abstained from voting in at least the last 3 provincial elections. There are really only 2 main parties to choose from, the Liberals and the Socialists. That means I have to choose between corruption or incompetence. (There are a few fringe parties, like the Natural Law Party, who claimed they would banish the deficit with their Yoga Flyers.)
The current Premier has resigned after polling at only 9% approval. He claimed he would never bring in a "Harmonized Sales Tax," aka the "Hated Sales Tax," right up to the last election, then he brought it in immediately after winning.
I sometimes get shocked by the vitriol American Conservatives have for the Obama administration and the Democrats, but when I look at my own attitude towards Canadian Liberals, I'm really no different. Being on the outside looking in can never be the same as being on the inside looking in.
The current Premier has resigned after polling at only 9% approval. He claimed he would never bring in a "Harmonized Sales Tax," aka the "Hated Sales Tax," right up to the last election, then he brought it in immediately after winning.
I sometimes get shocked by the vitriol American Conservatives have for the Obama administration and the Democrats, but when I look at my own attitude towards Canadian Liberals, I'm really no different. Being on the outside looking in can never be the same as being on the inside looking in.
CHoff
well, as I said, I hate the leftists here in Brazil. And yet, many of the american conservatives here would consider me a leftist, simply because they are so much on the right side of the spectrum, that ANY social welfare policy, as small as it is, they consider to be "communist".choff wrote: I sometimes get shocked by the vitriol American Conservatives have for the Obama administration and the Democrats, but when I look at my own attitude towards Canadian Liberals, I'm really no different. Being on the outside looking in can never be the same as being on the inside looking in.