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The Super Superhighway
valdean writes "The state of Texas is seeking to build a 4,000-mile megahighway network between Oklahoma and Mexico, called the Trans-Texas Corridor. The highway will be up to a quarter-mile across, and include separate lanes for passenger vehicles, large trucks, freight railways, high-speed commuter railways, and infrastructure for utilities including water lines, oil and gas pipelines, electricity, and broadband. In a recent press release, the governor of Texas said it will 'forever change the way we build roads.' So much for scenic drives."
Why is it that products and corporations are free to move around at the highest possible efficiency while workers from the third world are not also allowed to move north as each sees fit? http://www.noborder.org/news_index.php
Amen to that. Born here from a long line of true Texans (my family is, oddly enough, part English, part Mexican settlers), and Bush ain't one. Hell, he drives around his ranch in an F-250 with the windows rolled up and the air conditioner on.
Yes, this state was solidly D, and I firmly believe we were the better for it. Now, in the name of "no new taxes, not even closing the loopholes in existing taxes," we have:
- cut our childrens' health insurance program
- underfunded and misfunded education to the point that I pay more in school taxes than county and city combined, yet 28% of that money LEAVES my district, and two courts have slapped it down
- begun projects to convert existing, paid-for roads, to toll roads to "free up" money for other projects (why can't those new projects be tolled? SH 121 in Denton County, anyone?)
- completely sandbagged land and water rights owners in West Texas (a water table covering roughly 12 HUGE counties) because Dallas needs more water and doesn't care who they steal it from
- completely sandbagged land and water rights owners in East Texas (Marvin Nicholls Reservoir) because Dallas needs more water and doesn't care who they plow under to get it from
This is not the state I was born in, and I wish Karl Rove, Rick Perry, G. W. Bush and all their other buddies would stop using here as their political testbed.
Bah...!! our Dyson Sphere back home have 100 000 000 times the volume of your puny little sun!
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