Interestingly, the `Greatest Generation`, like Obama, would have been absolutely appalled and ashamed at how the Republicans are trying to spend, steal, and shirk the taxes onto their children`s and grandchildren`s generations because they are not old enough to fight for their own prosperity. Republicans are cowards who put their own fiscal and political greed above their own children and grandchildren.

No, Obama, just like the Greatest Generation, believes a truly great nation does not spend the future, it takes responsibility for its own actions and deeds.

The Bush/McCain agenda is to turn America into a full-blown fascist banana republic.

McCain/Clinton 2008!

Obama has experience and is telling it like it is. The other two are clowning for political points with the lemmings.

$250,000 for Downtown Roanoke (VA) for Infrastructure renovations for awnings of the historic market,

$100,000 for the Town of Boydton (VA) for development of the Walking Tour of Boydton

Give me a break! Why is the Federal gas tax paying for these projects

Take control out of Federal hands

They just can't resist pork

This was in the House FY08 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Appropriations bil

It is no surprise that the Chair and Ranking of the Appropriations Committee (Reps. Obey (D-WI) and Lewis (R-CA)) and the Transportation-HUD subcommittee (Reps. Olver (D-MA) and Knollenberg (R-MI) were some of the biggest winners in this bill.

http://www.taxpayer.net/TCS/PressReleases/2007/...

Some of the pork:

$100,000 for the Murray Athletic Center at Elmira College

$250,000 for construction at the Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center

$100,000 for the Wakely Lodge Resort, a golf course,

$81 million (admin request was $74.2 million) for the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD), which is a project of the Mitre Corporation,

Let the states collect the additional 18 cents/gal and handle all brifge/road repairs.

That would eliminate the Federal middleman and allow the states to prioritize the spending on repair/maintenance

Plus you wouldn't have Congress spending these dollars on usless projects

The Highway Trust Fund will run a negative balance sometime in 2009, yet the Congress and the President fail to make any substantive proposals that would alter this outcome. The Committee unhelpfully points out that the President didn't propose any new ideas, and then happily slices and dices a number of programs into 1,400 earmarks.

TCS has long maintained that earmarking is one of the problems that has led to this bleak outlook for the HTF. Lack of prioritization has been a huge problem for our nation's transportation program for many years now.

Republican McCain and Democrat Clinton, who is battling Obama for their party's nomination, both want to suspend the 18.4-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax during the peak summer driving months to ease the pain of soaring gas prices. The tax is used to fund the Highway Trust Fund that builds and maintains roads and bridges.

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A 'holiday' would result in a 10B loss of revenue. Based on several economists I've heard, the 18 cents would be made up when supplies run dry as people drive more. We don't have enough refinery capacity or enough oil to handle it.

And, anyone remember that bridge collapse last year? The problem is, people want stuff - and don't want to pay for it. Someone has to pay for the infrastructure repair in this country.