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Trump and Christie are KILLING Gateway


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The Christie thing is not a new diversion from Gateway, it's from ARC, so that much is misleading.

 

Christie straight up does not care about being Governor anymore. Perhaps NJ should introduce recalls into its constitution.

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This is absolutely dumb 

 

 

The Wall Street Journal reported July 3 that Elaine Chao, President Donald Trump's transportation secretary, had her in-house counsel pen a letter to the corporation last week announcing federal trustee Andrew Right's "permanent withdrawal" from its leadership. This would eliminate the "appearance of prejudice or partiality in favor of these projects ahead of hundreds of other projects nationwide.”

 

a.k.a. Even though interstate affairs are our job we don't want to do it because we look like we're favor these 2 states. In that case any project in any state would be favoritism. 

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This is absolutely dumb 

 

a.k.a. Even though interstate affairs are our job we don't want to do it because we look like we're favor these 2 states. In that case any project in any state would be favoritism. 

 

No, working with those states is favoritism. The normal way everyone does it is they do their homework and then they submit it to USDOT. USDOT is not legally authorized to do that work for states and has never been; USDOT exists as a bank, nothing more, nothing less.

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When the New York Times posts a front page story on the subject as they did today (July 7, 2017) you know that Christie has a problem. It seems that every time another politician decides to run for the presidency, the first thing they do is rail against taxes forgetting that if they dedicated tax lines to improve infrastructure (and for the record raised it every couple of years),infrastructure would have the money for improvements such as gateway. The problem is that the money that should be spent here is instead being wasted on their pet projects that onlybenefit their friends.

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Even if this is a political move, at what point does the d---ing around with our infrastructure in the name of politics end?  Cuomo is obsessed with his image more than anything else, Christie is acting like a teacher with tenure, and Trump just has a big mouth and no plans whatsoever.  There are certain issues where politics should never be a factor, and infrastructure is one of them.

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Poltics always weales it's way into infrastrucre. It's one of the most common forms of Pork.

 

Eh, other countries have managed to codify actual cost benefit analyses into their infrastructure proposals (i.e., the EU, Australia, and New Zealand).

 

It's just that here the left doesn't care about public accountability in spending and the right just wants to break government completely, so it will never happen here even though 'government is inefficient yadda yadda yadda'.

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