Everyone just glazed right over the point of my post. I am talking about a temporary fix, while we work on both lowering our demmand for oil, and our dependancy on oil from other countries. Yes, the roads will have to work on less money, but I know in NY there are road projects that have been going on for years with little progress (government waste example #1) While road work in Texas that I have seen has made huge progress in less time.
You asked me what useless government programs there are? I already gave you the example of the endowment for the arts-type programs that we subsidize every person who wants to call himself an artist. Other examples? Well, as much as I am all for exporing space, we spend hundreds of billions in trying to get a remote controlled car onto mars to look for signs of water from a couple million years ago.
How about repealing the Davis-Bacon act, which in effect brings the cost of any federal construction projects up about 40%? (ie. the guy that runs a caulking gun on a road project, his cost is determined to be worth $33 an hour in NY, yeah right)
I am not talking purely about useless programs, I am talking about the money given to states that is wasted. We have all heard of the rediculous uses of government funding like $1.5 million for a statue of a Roman god in Alabama. Or $489,000 for ??swine waste management? in North Carolina.
If you think that the government is not wasting our money for useless programs, your are a very uninformed person, but I don't think anyone in here is that stupid... -Nick
