Withhold money:
"US denies matching funds for highways; Letter withholding $1b says state plan falls short" by Noah Bierman, Globe Staff | December 21, 2007
The federal government has placed a hold on more than $1 billion in matching money for new transportation projects in Massachusetts.
In a series of letters leading to the December rejection, two federal officials lay out a number of issues, including concerns that Massachusetts has not set aside enough money to repair crumbling bridges.
Besides, the Feds need that money for wars and war profiteers!
The letter, signed by Richard H. Doyle and Lucy Garliauskas, local administrators for the Federal Transit Administration and the Federal Highway Administration, strongly recommends:
"[The state reexamine its priorities to] better reflect the increasingly pressing concerns and needs in the bridge and safety areas that we have been recently discussing with you."
Yeah, the feds lecturing us on unmet needs and priorities!
Does the gall get any greater?
Regardless of what prompted the decision to halt new projects, the US government's action will slow repairs on bridges and roads.
Oh, THAT'S GREAT!
Yup, the bridges and roads are shitty enough around here!
I hope no one gets killed in the meantime!!!
Yeah, from the warm-hearted federal government that wants to protect us!
Fuck the straw man of "terrorism" and FIX the ROADS!!!
Representative Joseph F. Wagner, a Chicopee Democrat who chairs the Joint Committee on Transportation, said the problem that led to the federal action dates to 2006, when Mitt Romney in his final year as governor did not introduce a borrowing bill and left Massachusetts without money to match federal spending on transportation."
Ooooooooh, so MITT LEFT US FUCKED, huh?
I never liked that shithead as governor, anyway!
