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Chugiakian (OP) User ID: 53604407 United States 07/04/2014 11:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.cbsnews.com] Obama sounds the alarm on looming Highway Trust Fund shortfall With a potential transportation crisis looming at the end of the summer, President Obama used the backdrop of a bridge that connects Washington, D.C., and Virginia to urge Congress to come up with a solution - and fast. At the Georgetown Waterfront Park, which looks out onto the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Mr. Obama asked lawmakers to close a tax loophole for companies that send profits overseas in order to fill the coffers of the Highway Trust Fund. Chugiakian |
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Chugiakian (OP) User ID: 53604407 United States 07/04/2014 11:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.cbsnews.com] Quoting: Chugiakian Obama sounds the alarm on looming Highway Trust Fund shortfall With a potential transportation crisis looming at the end of the summer, President Obama used the backdrop of a bridge that connects Washington, D.C., and Virginia to urge Congress to come up with a solution - and fast. At the Georgetown Waterfront Park, which looks out onto the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Mr. Obama asked lawmakers to close a tax loophole for companies that send profits overseas in order to fill the coffers of the Highway Trust Fund. OBAMA's own words…. "It's not crazy, its not socialism, its not the imperial presidency. No laws are broken. We're just building roads and bridges like we've been doing for the last, I don't know, 50, 100 years," Mr. Obama said. "But so far House Republicans have refused to act on this idea. I haven't heard a good reason why they haven't acted. Its not like they've been busy with other stuff. No seriously. I mean they're not doing anything. Why don't they do this?" "Republican obstruction is not just some abstract political stunt. It has real and direct consequences for middle-class families all across the country," the president added. Chugiakian |
Chugiakian (OP) User ID: 53604407 United States 07/04/2014 11:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Department of Transportation (DOT) predicts that the fund, which has traditionally drawn its revenue from the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents per gallon, will be depleted by late August. As a result, the funding that states get from the federal government for highway projects - about 45 percent - will start to shrink. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx warned reporters in May that letting the account expire could lead to 700,000 Americans losing jobs in road work, bridge-building and transit maintenance as 112,000 highway and 5,600 transit projects underway come to a halt. IF the Federal gas tax reserves will be depleted by August, perhaps he should consider stopping money from this same budget to be spent on shopping malls. Chugiakian |
Chugiakian (OP) User ID: 53604407 United States 07/04/2014 11:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | FACT SHEET: President Obama Lays Out Vision for 21st Century Transportation Infrastructure [link to www.whitehouse.gov] Chugiakian |
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Chugiakian (OP) User ID: 53604407 United States 07/04/2014 11:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | New House GOP tax reform plan drops tax rates, popular deductions [link to www.washingtonpost.com] [snip] However, all that simplicity comes at the cost of hundreds of credits and deductions that have been woven into the American way of life. There would be no more personal exemptions for you, your spouse and your dependents; no more credit for child care; no more deductions for medical bills or for state and local taxes. The mortgage interest deduction would be available only for mortgages worth less than $500,000, instead of the current $1 million (though currently held mortgages would be grandfathered). And an important tax break for the poor would be dramatically scaled back. Investment income would lose its special status and be taxed like regular income. And the wealthiest households — those earning more than $450,000 a year — would lose virtually every deduction and credit, including the tax-free treatment of health insurance premiums paid by their employers. Last Edited by Chugiakian on 07/04/2014 12:02 PM Chugiakian |
Chugiakian (OP) User ID: 53604407 United States 07/04/2014 12:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is the one I had not heard of ….. Latest Round of TIGER Grants Continues Funding of Questionable Projects - See more at: [link to reason.org] [SNIP] Who doesn’t love the mall? One can shop in a wide variety of stores featuring clothing, electronics or toys. However, development patterns can change over time. Sometimes a once popular mall closes down after its clientele has moved away. The city of Fresno, CA has decided to try to revive Fulton Mall, an old development in its downtown. Thus it is turning to a federal Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program. While most transportation programs would not support economic development, the TIGER grants are not most programs. The TIGER Grants are supposed to support “transportation projects of national significance.” Yet, during the 5th round of the TIGER grants, a large number of grants went to projects that were neither transportation related nor of national importance. A grant of $15.9 million went towards reconstruction of the Fulton Mall. - See more at: [link to reason.org] Chugiakian |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28285524 United States 07/04/2014 12:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm a hardcore constitutionalist conservative and I'd like to see more rail and safe clean useable public transportation. I've always been FOR electric vehicles.(I've got an electro-mechanical technology associates; so I've worked around electric motors an drives in industry. There' sa big upside to fewer moving mechanical parts.) I just don't think this is the way to do it . Hell Even Italian facsist dictator Mussolini "made the trains run on time". Why can't this guy do things we can agree on with out breaking our laws?(i.e. Spending bills originate in the "house". NOT the executive branch! Now I will have to oppose this under the principle of "rule of law". |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 59846713 United States 07/04/2014 12:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.cbsnews.com] Quoting: Chugiakian Obama sounds the alarm on looming Highway Trust Fund shortfall With a potential transportation crisis looming at the end of the summer, President Obama used the backdrop of a bridge that connects Washington, D.C., and Virginia to urge Congress to come up with a solution - and fast. At the Georgetown Waterfront Park, which looks out onto the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Mr. Obama asked lawmakers to close a tax loophole for companies that send profits overseas in order to fill the coffers of the Highway Trust Fund. OBAMA's own words…. "It's not crazy, its not socialism, its not the imperial presidency. No laws are broken. We're just building roads and bridges like we've been doing for the last, I don't know, 50, 100 years," Mr. Obama said. "But so far House Republicans have refused to act on this idea. I haven't heard a good reason why they haven't acted. Its not like they've been busy with other stuff. No seriously. I mean they're not doing anything. Why don't they do this?" "Republican obstruction is not just some abstract political stunt. It has real and direct consequences for middle-class families all across the country," the president added. And this is laying the foundation for the republicans to lose their seats in the next election. People will only hear "the republicans refused" and vote against them. They know this so why are they doing it? Do all the republicans suddenly want out of government, like Cantor? Cantor spent the money but many think he wanted out. |
Chugiakian (OP) User ID: 53604407 United States 07/04/2014 12:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm a hardcore constitutionalist conservative and I'd like to see more rail and safe clean useable public transportation. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28285524 I've always been FOR electric vehicles.(I've got an electro-mechanical technology associates; so I've worked around electric motors an drives in industry. There' sa big upside to fewer moving mechanical parts.) I just don't think this is the way to do it . Hell Even Italian facsist dictator Mussolini "made the trains run on time". Why can't this guy do things we can agree on with out breaking our laws?(i.e. Spending bills originate in the "house". NOT the executive branch! Now I will have to oppose this under the principle of "rule of law". mass transportation….. just another way to control the sheeple! Chugiakian |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 28285524 United States 07/04/2014 02:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm a hardcore constitutionalist conservative and I'd like to see more rail and safe clean useable public transportation. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28285524 I've always been FOR electric vehicles.(I've got an electro-mechanical technology associates; so I've worked around electric motors an drives in industry. There' sa big upside to fewer moving mechanical parts.) I just don't think this is the way to do it . Hell Even Italian facsist dictator Mussolini "made the trains run on time". Why can't this guy do things we can agree on with out breaking our laws?(i.e. Spending bills originate in the "house". NOT the executive branch! Now I will have to oppose this under the principle of "rule of law". mass transportation….. just another way to control the sheeple! I'm50+driving has lost its novelty. I do enjoy riding my motorcycles; But driving my pickup or car in heavy traffic is a chore. Haven't flown (as a form of fiscal "protest") since the TSA declared themselves legal peverts: I'd rather take a train long distances than fly; nowadays I've got "that kinda'" time. |
Question EVERYTHING Traveler In The Matrix User ID: 59437060 United States 07/04/2014 02:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | FUCKING APPALLING!!!! Not a dictatorship MY GOD DAMN ASS!!! All of you idiots that voted for this usurper twice should be ashamed of yourselves. If you think the crazy shit is just starting... you wait because you've seen nothing yet. He just won't be happy until the whole thing is fucking burning in a pile of ashes on the ground. I'm absolutely fucking disgusted. Last Edited by Question EVERYTHING on 07/04/2014 02:39 PM First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~ Mahatma Gandhi "Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever." ~ George Orwell "The exact level of tyranny that you're going to live under, is the level of tyranny you put up with." ~Thomas Jefferson "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~ Thomas Jefferson |
Sledster User ID: 38613640 United States 07/04/2014 02:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | FUCKING APPALLING!!!! Quoting: Question EVERYTHING Not a dictatorship MY GOD DAMN ASS!!! All of you idiots that voted for this usurper twice should be ashamed of yourselves. If you think the crazy shit is just starting... you wait because you've seen nothing yet. He just won't be happy until the whole thing is fucking burning in a pile of ashes on the ground. I'm absolutely fucking disgusted. We should be at the white house with pitchforks and torches. I'm tired of waiting, somebody push the damn button already! Keep your 72 virgins, give me one old biker chick. |
Question EVERYTHING Traveler In The Matrix User ID: 59437060 United States 07/04/2014 03:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The entire country is in shambles like a decaying carcass and this administration wants to siphon all of the blood out of the corpse before it turns to fucking dust. I realize Bush was bad... but this shit that has gone is truly disgusting and every day I think it can't get worse... and then he opens his mouth and spits out some more appalling words that I just can't believe my ears. We have been taken over from within... THAT I'm certain of. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~ Mahatma Gandhi "Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever." ~ George Orwell "The exact level of tyranny that you're going to live under, is the level of tyranny you put up with." ~Thomas Jefferson "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~ Thomas Jefferson |
Chugiakian (OP) User ID: 53604407 United States 07/04/2014 03:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm a hardcore constitutionalist conservative and I'd like to see more rail and safe clean useable public transportation. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28285524 I've always been FOR electric vehicles.(I've got an electro-mechanical technology associates; so I've worked around electric motors an drives in industry. There' sa big upside to fewer moving mechanical parts.) I just don't think this is the way to do it . Hell Even Italian facsist dictator Mussolini "made the trains run on time". Why can't this guy do things we can agree on with out breaking our laws?(i.e. Spending bills originate in the "house". NOT the executive branch! Now I will have to oppose this under the principle of "rule of law". mass transportation….. just another way to control the sheeple! I'm50+driving has lost its novelty. I do enjoy riding my motorcycles; But driving my pickup or car in heavy traffic is a chore. Haven't flown (as a form of fiscal "protest") since the TSA declared themselves legal peverts: I'd rather take a train long distances than fly; nowadays I've got "that kinda'" time. TSA will be coming to the mass train stations soon enough, then whatcha gonna do? Chugiakian |
Chugiakian (OP) User ID: 53604407 United States 07/04/2014 03:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | FUCKING APPALLING!!!! Quoting: Question EVERYTHING Not a dictatorship MY GOD DAMN ASS!!! All of you idiots that voted for this usurper twice should be ashamed of yourselves. If you think the crazy shit is just starting... you wait because you've seen nothing yet. He just won't be happy until the whole thing is fucking burning in a pile of ashes on the ground. I'm absolutely fucking disgusted. We should be at the white house with pitchforks and torches. This was tried back in 1932….they were run off. [link to www.eyewitnesstohistory.com] Chugiakian |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28285524 United States 07/04/2014 03:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.cbsnews.com] Quoting: Chugiakian Obama sounds the alarm on looming Highway Trust Fund shortfall With a potential transportation crisis looming at the end of the summer, President Obama used the backdrop of a bridge that connects Washington, D.C., and Virginia to urge Congress to come up with a solution - and fast. At the Georgetown Waterfront Park, which looks out onto the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Mr. Obama asked lawmakers to close a tax loophole for companies that send profits overseas in order to fill the coffers of the Highway Trust Fund. OBAMA's own words…. "It's not crazy, its not socialism, its not the imperial presidency. No laws are broken. We're just building roads and bridges like we've been doing for the last, I don't know, 50, 100 years," Mr. Obama said. "But so far House Republicans have refused to act on this idea. I haven't heard a good reason why they haven't acted. Its not like they've been busy with other stuff. No seriously. I mean they're not doing anything. Why don't they do this?" "Republican obstruction is not just some abstract political stunt. It has real and direct consequences for middle-class families all across the country," the president added. And this is laying the foundation for the republicans to lose their seats in the next election. People will only hear "the republicans refused" and vote against them. They know this so why are they doing it? Do all the republicans suddenly want out of government, like Cantor? Cantor spent the money but many think he wanted out. Why oppose? See my post above: you("we") have to oppose it to uphold the rule of law. That's the difference between todays democrat party and "us".(I'm no longer a donating republican): Even if you like some policy it has to be done by the book. See The "ends" NEVER justify the "means". Otherwise the 51% (i.e."Mob")can vote the property and rights away from the 49% and that's NOT FAIR or JUST or THE COUNTRY we are supposed to have.. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28285524 United States 07/04/2014 03:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm a hardcore constitutionalist conservative and I'd like to see more rail and safe clean useable public transportation. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28285524 I've always been FOR electric vehicles.(I've got an electro-mechanical technology associates; so I've worked around electric motors an drives in industry. There' sa big upside to fewer moving mechanical parts.) I just don't think this is the way to do it . Hell Even Italian facsist dictator Mussolini "made the trains run on time". Why can't this guy do things we can agree on with out breaking our laws?(i.e. Spending bills originate in the "house". NOT the executive branch! Now I will have to oppose this under the principle of "rule of law". mass transportation….. just another way to control the sheeple! I'm50+driving has lost its novelty. I do enjoy riding my motorcycles; But driving my pickup or car in heavy traffic is a chore. Haven't flown (as a form of fiscal "protest") since the TSA declared themselves legal peverts: I'd rather take a train long distances than fly; nowadays I've got "that kinda'" time. TSA will be coming to the mass train stations soon enough, then whatcha gonna do? YOU ARE CORRECT,no argument viper teams have been to bus stations already; but I still like they idea of train travel. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 59308318 United States 07/04/2014 04:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | New House GOP tax reform plan drops tax rates, popular deductions Quoting: Chugiakian [link to www.washingtonpost.com] [snip] However, all that simplicity comes at the cost of hundreds of credits and deductions that have been woven into the American way of life. There would be no more personal exemptions for you, your spouse and your dependents; no more credit for child care; no more deductions for medical bills or for state and local taxes. The mortgage interest deduction would be available only for mortgages worth less than $500,000, instead of the current $1 million (though currently held mortgages would be grandfathered). And an important tax break for the poor would be dramatically scaled back. Investment income would lose its special status and be taxed like regular income. And the wealthiest households — those earning more than $450,000 a year — would lose virtually every deduction and credit, including the tax-free treatment of health insurance premiums paid by their employers. Thank you for this info. Need to pass it on to lots of people now! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 59308318 United States 07/04/2014 04:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Look, I realize that you want to rebuild America and the way to do it is to invest... BUT... I seem to remember some astronomical amount of money through the TARP program that was used to rebuild America and we didn't seem to see any benefits from it. Quoting: Question EVERYTHING The entire country is in shambles like a decaying carcass and this administration wants to siphon all of the blood out of the corpse before it turns to fucking dust. I realize Bush was bad... but this shit that has gone is truly disgusting and every day I think it can't get worse... and then he opens his mouth and spits out some more appalling words that I just can't believe my ears. We have been taken over from within... THAT I'm certain of. Your last sentence is absolutely 100% fact for anyone who even tries to look at what is happening all around. It's going to be a doozy for at least the nextdecade or two. SPREAD THE KNOWLEDGE, EVERYONE! THAT IS THE KEY! |
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