From: Marty Galyean (marty@heavyreckoning.com)
Date: Wed Apr 26 2006 - 04:21:15 PDT
Joe Foley wrote:
>Yes, but if you ask a person in Wyoming if they
>appreciate the money us Easterners spend on THEIR
>highways they WILL say YES!!
>
>The population of Wyoming is only a little over
>400,000 and they know they couldn't afford their few
>highways by themselves.
>
>
>
But it isn't just commuters who use the highways. All those trucks
hauling Walmart crap all over the country for one.
I'm just saying, what is so unjust with those who use a service to be
the ones who pay for it?
As for the the "easterners" thing. Coming recently from Idaho to NC, I
can tell you that every time I'd read about Boston's "Big Dig" I cringed
at the federal money being spent on a project that would *never* benefit
me or mine. That project alone could balance quite a most of the
maintenance of highways out west easily. It is easy to forget, but a
fact all the same, that much of the 'parkway' and other multilane work
inside larger cities gets federal dollars because the route is also a
federal route; including Boston's Big Dig. So the Wyoming/Easterner
thing isn't as clear cut as it might seem on the surface.
Marty
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