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re: Gas prices going up but no truck nuts - BOO!

Posted on 5/16/17 at 6:04 pm to
Posted by Delacroix
Member since Oct 2008
3990 posts
Posted on 5/16/17 at 6:04 pm to
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So why give them more money to misuse?


This misuse of money is not DOTDs fault. They did not choose to divert dedicated funds towards the police department, nor did they recommend the Audobon bridge. It was the idiotic previous administrations that did these things.

If this were any other topic I would agree with you, but our infrastructure investment is too far behind to wait for the government to prove us right. We can't keep up with the desperate need with the current tax. If we could cut useless government programs to help fund this then that's great, but that's not going to happen. Infrastructure needs money now or there will never be any other topics on the OT besides how much traffic/BR sucks
Posted by White Bear
Yonnygo
Member since Jul 2014
14188 posts
Posted on 5/16/17 at 6:14 pm to
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This misuse of money is not DOTDs fault. They did not choose to divert dedicated funds towards the police department, nor did they recommend the Audobon bridge. It was the idiotic previous administrations that did these things. If this were any other topic I would agree with you, but our infrastructure investment is too far behind to wait for the government to prove us right. We can't keep up with the desperate need with the current tax. If we could cut useless government programs to help fund this then that's great, but that's not going to happen. Infrastructure needs money now or there will never be any other topics on the OT besides how much traffic/BR sucks
so you're thinking these as clowns are going to magically start doing right?? news flash - they will not.
Posted by beerJeep
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2016
35252 posts
Posted on 5/16/17 at 6:15 pm to
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misuse of money is not DOTDs fault.


I beg to differ. It's a government agency. Not a single government agency spends it's alloted money properly. They are wasteful in nature.

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we could cut useless government programs to help fund this then that's great, but that's not going to happen.


It can and should. Stop the flow of cash and force them to use what they have. As a whole. Not just one department. When the rubber hits the road a choice has to be made.

But when you keep handing a child more money and say "now Tommy this money is for lunch ONLY" and then they spend it on toys or the arcade, and then turn around and keep giving them more and more, what incentive does the child have to spend the money on what the money was designed for rather than what he wants it for?
Posted by Lee Chatelain
I love the OT!
Member since Oct 2008
11351 posts
Posted on 5/16/17 at 6:29 pm to
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Infrastructure needs money now or there will never be any other topics on the OT besides how much traffic/BR sucks


Ok. So start firing people. Cut your dept in half. Start putting toll booths up at the entrance of I-10, I-12, I-49, Airline, and every other main entryway into our state. Put other toll booths up in other places throughout the state. Texas does it. Florida does it. North Carolina does it. The Republicans had a plan like this and the Dems shot it down. So let the traffic continue to suck.

The Republicans tried.....all the Dems wanna do and all the EVER wanna do is raise taxes. I sat in the House when they debated the budget bill.....EVERY democrat that stood up....all their answer was raise taxes. Raise taxes. Can't cut this, can't cut that. There is seriously something wrong a Democrat.
Posted by BilJ
Member since Sep 2003
158834 posts
Posted on 5/16/17 at 6:48 pm to
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e could cut useless government programs to help fund this then that's great, but that's not going to happen.


and this is why they continue to get away with it.
Posted by White Bear
Yonnygo
Member since Jul 2014
14188 posts
Posted on 5/16/17 at 6:53 pm to
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Infrastructure needs money now or there will never be any other topics on the OT besides how much traffic/BR sucks
check out that 2015 master plan referenced in the bill, of the tier A projects there are 5 south la dollars to every north la dollar, which is bullshite. Alexandria being the n/s line.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
36791 posts
Posted on 5/16/17 at 8:20 pm to
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. It was the idiotic previous administrations that did these things.


Suck a huge tax paying Dick. There was a master plan 25 years ago with that gas tax increase. All our troubles were supposed to be fixed back then. Nothing happened.

This is a never ending cycle of lies and abuse by the state govt at all levels as they literally steal from the tax payers. frick you and every other SOB who tries to defend or justify this theft.
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