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Broke Counties Turn Failing Roads To Gravel
To save money, more than 20 Michigan counties have decided to turn deteriorating paved roads back to gravel. Montcalm County estimates that repaving a road costs more than $100,000 a mile. Grinding the same mile of road up and turning it into gravel costs $10,000. At least 50 miles of road have been reverted to gravel in Michigan the past three years. I can't wait until we revert back to whale oil lighting and can finally be rid of this electricity fad.
How fast we have fallen and how great was that fall.
Wall Street is a terrorist organization that make Al Queda looks like street gang. We all have fallen for that Wall Street male bovine feces that they have spewing for so many years that neglected to check on the facts on that selling us roast beef but all it was male bovine feces.
When the government provides food, million starve. When it provides roads, well...
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If you cared for your personal safety, you wouldn't be on a motorcycle to begin with.
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So who is going to pay for the long term damage the gravel will cause to my car? The city is responsible for damage caused by chuckholes.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I live on a dirt road, and all I can say is that some people have more dollars than cents.
Having a seperator between you and the road (it's called trees.... etc) more than takes care of the dust issue, and results in a far prettier curbside than manicured and cemented suburbia. If, however, you're one of those people who just have to have everything mowed like a golf course (including your ditch), then yep, you may end up with dust issues.
Actual rural areas with corn fields and the like understand that you actually need trees and bushes to break the wind and dust.
> Yeah, Democrats, I'm sure that's the reason. It had nothing at all to do with
> the auto industry and loss of jobs or anything like that.
Yea, it has everything to do with loss of jobs and the auto industry. Let me keep it simple enough someone with a government schooling should be able to follow along. Democrats destroy jobs. The greater tehir majorities and the longer the time they hold it the worse the damage. Go plot the demographic trendlines yourself if you don't believe me. The Bluer the state and longer it has been blue the more seats it has lost in the last couple of Census reallocations. The Red states have been picking up seats. People are voting with their feet. I just wish the fools would realize WHY they had to move and thus not bring the problem with them by electing Democrats in their new home.
There isn't much of a problem in the 'auto industry' if by auto industry you mean production of autos. They just aren't being made in Michigan anymore, they are being built in Right to Work states with lower tax structures in factories where the root of the corporate ownership tree is in Tokyo instead of New York[1]. Of course with the recession and all, they are all feeling some pain about now.
Now riddle me this: With an existing industrial base and lots of experienced labor available, why does a Japanese automaker decide to skip Michigan when locating a plant in the US and instead go to the South where none of those advantages exist? Why do they do a greenfield project along the Interstate in the middle of nowhere when they could buy a closed plant in an area with thousands of unemployed workers with exactly the skills they need? When you can answer that question you will have taken your first step towards enlightenment.
[1] Hint, the 'Detroit automaker' bankruptcies are being filed in NY.
Democrat delenda est
I'm amazed that this article is about the United States and not some third world country. President Bush left a legacy alright.
Motorcycles are vehicle too!
I always thought they're more like self-service catafalques.
Instead of deporting them, lets put them in labor camps and have them repave our roads
Brilliant! But why stop there? Once the road are paved, you can still deport them - say, to Mauritania, or any other similarly enlightened country which still practices slavery - and get some extra cash.
Glad to see there are still some fiscally responsible people around...