By the way Allen, in the context you are using it, it is spelled "here to stay".

When was the last time you looked at a 2 year old used car? 90 - 100 - 150 thousand miles on the odometer. Does that tell you the story of traffic problems and about the supply and demand factor of gasoline? Everyone drives way too many needless miles. Why don't they just stay home? Home isn't such a bad place to be.

I think we're all exhausted from Olympia's constant raping of our wallets with nothing to show for it.
I work in Seattle, but with the housing prices I could only afford to buy a house in E KC (three yrs ago), so my commute is approximately 45 minutes.
I think it's time to face reality, KC is BIG NOW! Roads like Kent Kangley, Benson, and Hwy 169 are heavily traveled, I mean heavily. How many cars have to travel on one road, per day, to be considered a psuedo hiway? I'm sorry if people will have to sacrifice their home for a road, but what kind of peace do you really have living on Kent Kangley anyway? constant traffic, plus it can't be safe with the crime along busy roads.

It's time not only to re-think existing hiways, but future ones as well. Will we, or can we ever get past the environmental impact?

Gov't officials have no problem taking property for the monorail or Sound Transit do they? So why won't they do the same for those of us who will never give up our freedom to drive? After all we're the ones paying for it at the pump. Sound Transit is a cute idea, but really, it saves time for no one.

Is any of this stuff going to work? Only time will tell If it will work or not. In case no one has noticed the way for the North American Union has already been signed into law and the FEDS have paved the way to toll and privitize the interstate highways as part of American Union which no one has spoken or written much about except Lou Dobbs on CNN.

Whether privitizing the roads and bridges will work or not is moot, it's a done deal yet to be implemented. Mark my words. On July 29, 2005, President Bush signed a bill which permits and promotes the charging of tolls on existing and planned interstate highways, bridges, and tunnels. Before the passage of the bill, known as SAFETEA-LU, or “Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users”, it was generally illegal to charge tolls on roads built with Federal funds. What’s more, the tolls collected will be automatic, requiring universally compatible toll transponder tags on every vehicle.

SAFETEA-LU makes possible a variety of programs, all aimed at forcing Americans to pay to travel. To wit:

* “Interstate System Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Pilot Program” allows the tolling of existing interstate highways, bridges, and tunnels to fund repair of existing highways.

* “Interstate System Construction Toll Pilot Program” authorizes tolling existing facilities on the interstate system to fund new interstate highways.

* “Value Pricing Pilot (VPP) Program” allows new tolls on existing toll free facilities such as high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, tolls on new lanes added to existing highways, and electronically collected variable tolls on existing and new toll facilities.

* “Express Lanes Demonstration Program” allows tolling to finance new lanes. Automatic toll collection is REQUIRED and revenue collected may be used to provide a reasonable rate of return on PRIVATE financing, operation, and maintenance costs.

* “High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Facilities, SAFETEA-LU Section 1121 (23 USC 166)” authorizes states to build high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes on interstate and non-interstate facilities.

Although most of these programs are experimental, the mindset they demonstrate and the precedents they intend to set will have devastating consequences on all Americans. The mindset is that Americans are lab rats in a maze, who must be tagged and tracked everywhere they go. Cockroaches control the maze. The consequences to the heretofore taken for granted freedom to travel and to individual pocketbooks are ominous.

Imagine for a moment what must have been going through the minds of those when they thought up this diabolical scheme. The question is “How do you destroy the national sovereignty of the United States, merge it with the rest of the western hemisphere, build the infrastructure system needed to link up the entire landmass, confiscate private property on a wholesale level, spy on everyone’s comings and goings, and trick American into paying for their own demise all in one fell swoop ?" The answer: TOLL EVERYTHING!

As with any diabolical plot, many problems and obstacles had to be removed in order to insure success. As the Wicked Witch of the West once said, “The question is `how to do it`. These things must be done delicately, or you’ll hurt the spell”.

The first obstacle is that it is generally illegal to toll federally funded roads. No problem…just sneak section 1604 into a telephone book sized highway bill and no one will notice. Everyone knows Congressmen and Senators do not actually read the bills they vote on.

How do you get the super rich elites to go along with the plan? Like the sell off of US ports to foreigners, simply…give them a piece of the action. Construction contracts will go to selected insiders and toll facilities will be given to private investors. We will call it “public-private partnership”.

But wait! State by state, the local politicians must be persuaded to pass legislation to further the scheme. How to do it? Tell the contractors to write the necessary legislation, line the campaign coffers of key legislators, convince the Governor of each state that it was his idea via more campaign contributions, and sneak the bills through the state legislatures when nobody is looking. After all, state representatives do not read the bills they vote on, or pretend not to, either.

Yet another requirement in order to pull this off is to keep the public in the dark and present the solution incrementally as if it is a local problem, not part of a larger agenda leglistated from the top down. When the public begin to realize what is going on, they will complain to their local transportation officials and wonder why no one is listening. Just don’t let the public know that the orders resides in New York City at the headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

But the Constitution stands in the way of the plot. What to do about the pesky supreme law of the land which prohibits the taking of private land and handing it over to other private entities? How fortunate that the globalist infested Supreme Court, in June of 2005, legislated from the bench by re-writing the takings clause of the 5th Amendment in Kelo vs. City of New London. Now the Supremes say it is okay to force people to sell their land to private developers who promise a kickback to the government, we are free to proceed with the tolling of America.

Still one more problem must be overcome. We must propagandize transportation officials into believing this is a great idea so they can sell it to private investors and politicos nationwide. ADVERTISING is the key. We will get the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials to put up a website called www.innovativefinance.org. It will be a veritable “how to” encyclopedia of fascism, but we will call it “public-private partnership” because “fascism” does not roll so well off of the tongue. Multi-millionaire highway contractors and local politicians will be able to swill at the federal trough to their hearts content. It will be a win-win setup for everyone except regular Americans, who are just being set up.

This malicious plan is being implemented all across America. Such plots survive and thrive only in the dark. It is time to turn on the lights and watch the cockroaches run. In Texas, pro-toll politicians have been replaced with anti-toll newcomers. This trend must continue, and spread like a wildfire of truth throughout the country. The alarm clock is ringing. Wake up. Get up. Open your eyes. Get out the roach spray. Fumigate your house. Go wake up your neighbors.

Enjoy that ride down the empty highway at midnight because it might not last forever if the truth is not told..

ionolsen23 May we exchange links with your site?

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