How Do You Spell "Thug?"
Friday, January 28, 2011
Explanation, Please
I know I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but exactly how does our government get us out of overwhelming indebtedness by borrowing more money? Anyone...? Anyone...? Bueller...?
Thursday, January 27, 2011
WPA Redux
MUPPET NEWS FLASH: Mr. President (pro tem), "Infrastructure Spending" is another term for FDR's "Works Progress Administration," which produced 100% TAXPAYER-FUNDED TEMPORARY JOBS. Growing government AGAIN is not the solution to unemployment, Mr. President-pro-tem, no matter what you learned at Harvard. Perhaps you, sir, should research the WPA before you reinstate it.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
WOO-HOO!! HIGH SPEED TRAINS A-COMIN' !!
The President just promised more billions of tax dollars to "improve" America's infrastructure, with projects like making "high-speed rail" available for 80% of Americans.
I can hardly wait to ride the new-and-improved Amtrak:
Just think, Portland-to-Lincoln City in less than three hours!!*
And all for less than $12 million per mile of track!!**
* Some restrictions apply. Your actual travel time may be greater depending upon days of the week, distance from parking lot to terminal, distance from bus stop to terminal, holidays, rainy days, gloomy days, bad hair days, one-of-THOSE-days, union regulations, union featherbedding, union work stoppages, union coffee breaks, whistle-stopping, and drug and/or alcohol use by passengers and/or train operators.
** Some restrictions apply. Your actual cost-per-mile may exceed $12 million depending upon topography, geography, cartography, climatological and environmental restrictions, phrenological studies, greenhouse gas emission restrictions, local land use regulations, local customs, use of actual metal in rails and trains, and Congressional management and budgetary oversight. Average odds of costing a mere $12 million-per-mile: 1 in 186,000. Cost estimates exclude labor costs, land acquisition costs, maintenance costs, carriage costs, price of metal, price of plastic, and bri...ummmm....incentive contributions to elected officials.
I can hardly wait to ride the new-and-improved Amtrak:
Just think, Portland-to-Lincoln City in less than three hours!!*
And all for less than $12 million per mile of track!!**
* Some restrictions apply. Your actual travel time may be greater depending upon days of the week, distance from parking lot to terminal, distance from bus stop to terminal, holidays, rainy days, gloomy days, bad hair days, one-of-THOSE-days, union regulations, union featherbedding, union work stoppages, union coffee breaks, whistle-stopping, and drug and/or alcohol use by passengers and/or train operators.
** Some restrictions apply. Your actual cost-per-mile may exceed $12 million depending upon topography, geography, cartography, climatological and environmental restrictions, phrenological studies, greenhouse gas emission restrictions, local land use regulations, local customs, use of actual metal in rails and trains, and Congressional management and budgetary oversight. Average odds of costing a mere $12 million-per-mile: 1 in 186,000. Cost estimates exclude labor costs, land acquisition costs, maintenance costs, carriage costs, price of metal, price of plastic, and bri...ummmm....incentive contributions to elected officials.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
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