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I wasn't asking a loaded question Nimby, I was just wanting clarification. Second, my experiences are the same as yours I would assume. And third, the Transportation Trust fun is underfunded right now by TRILLIONS of dollars. That's what is estimated to fully repair our infrastructure. The reason this occurred was the same reason why there are so many unfunded liabilities throughout the government, and that is we keep trying to take from one sector of the government to pay for another. Look at lottery dollars that were earmaked for education as another example.
I'll be honest, I don't know anything about Transportation Bill, so I'm not going to comment on it. All I will say is that anything that was proposed last year was doomed to failure as it was an election year. There's probably more to it that you are leaving out, but as I said, I don't pay that close attention to Congress to care. I do know that the answer isn't simply to throw more money at the problem, as that has been tried and failed.
You sound just like those House members who couldn't get a single bill into law for 2 years and think they are doing a good job. Are you worried our infrastructure might not be a good investment? Maybe we should go back to building bridges in Iraq instead.?