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Highway Funds & Drinking
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:01:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Victor Knight writes:
> Because US Congress, overstepping their bounds as usual, attatched a
> conditional to highway funds so that if a state had a lower drinking age
> than 21, they would not get the highway funds. (Of course the money comes
> from the citizens of the states in the first place..)
Heh-- not always :) If you recall recently there was a big hubbub about
Mass's jynormous highway project, the Big Dig, and whether or not to cut of
federal funds since the project was ridiculously over budget and overdue. I
think it's the largest budgeted road construction project in US history...
Oh, and as a debate starter, just as an example of one of the things they
spent money on... They spent over 1 million dollars on a "fish-startling
system" so that fish wouldn't be killed by their activities.
DaveE
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 | | Re: Highway Funds & Drinking
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| (...) Geez, and we just lost $10 million in Federal pork for our Manhattan Bridge which is only a $2 billion refurbushing. I bet it went to Boston (oink oink). -Erik -surviving Week 1 of the Manhattan Bridge "biggest subway reroute ever seen in New (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Because US Congress, overstepping their bounds as usual, attatched a conditional to highway funds so that if a state had a lower drinking age than 21, they would not get the highway funds. (Of course the money comes from the citizens of the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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