Resurrected Quotes of the Day:

(1) “Until we lock up the transportation fund, I’m not talking about new revenues.”

-- Tim Kaine, February 21, 2005.

(2) “I will veto any tax increase . . . unless the transportation trust fund is locked up.”

-- Tim Kaine, July 16, 2005.

Timmy, please raise my taxes. Use them for whatever you see fit--damn the costs, full speed ahead! Public works never works:

“"Four years after Philadelphia officials announced the celebrated EarthLink deal that would offer Wi-Fi throughout the city, the network is shutting down.

Despite once being touted as the example for how cities should deploy Wi-Fi, EarthLink announced today in a statement that it’s pulling the plug on the city-wide network. The company said it couldn’t find a buyer for the $17 million (unfinished) network after deciding earlier this year to get out of the municipal wireless business.

EarthLink stopped accepting new customers on the network last week and said that current customers will have until June 12 to switch to another provider.

The Philadelphia network was one of five introduced in 2006 and 2007 by EarthLink. The company announced a few weeks ago that it would be shutting down a similar network in New Orleans on May 18, though it managed to strike deals with the local governments of Corpus Christi, Texas and Milpitas, California , who will take over their networks.

EarthLink offered a similar deal to Philadelphia--even offering to transfer the network for free and donate new Wi-Fi equipment--but city officials said the network operation expenses would cost taxpayers too much. No word yet on what will happen to the last network, which is located in Anaheim, California."”

Who needs roads ?

You have to pay for them somehow someway. The Republicans rely on magic (it’s magic) and the Democrats on some onerous increase that will only get worse tommorrow than it was today.

Meanwhile you have all the band boosters telling us how great it is that the state is growing and the economy is growing.

No one seems to have figured out that increased growth will also bring increased costs.  Even if Virginia were to drop all growth we would still have to ferry Carolinians from Charlotte to downtown DC on I-95.

I’m looking for constructive suggestions such as roadblocks to shoot on sight anyone from Carolina to sell their cars for scrap to ship to China so that we can buy some neat toys for the children.

Sell their organs too. Not just heart lungs and liver but Hammond Lowry Suzuki too. Any organ that will fit inside a vehicle or a body.

Trade one ton of SUV for one ton of toys, lead paint optional.  Anyone paying a tax of $500 per person or $1500 per car will be allowed to pass, using an EZPASS transponder, particularly if they can sing at least one verse of “Carry Me Back to Ol Virginny” and can renounce their citizenship to No. Carolina for all time.

You know, combine American Idol with a roadblock EZPASS and guard dogs.

Constructive ideas for our transportation needs. Transit for the 21st Century. We need action. We need results. I’m proposing results.

No reason whatsoever why they can’t detour to Ohio to approach DC via Maryland. Not our problem then. Go ahead. Use the Ohio route.

If we need to travel south I suggest taking back roads in an old GTO nicknamed Rebel Yell. You know, payback.

Tim McKAINE, same same, as the Republicans who had no plan to come up with money for roads. Its not like the Christian Confederate Commonwealth encourages honesty. If he had run saying a tax increase was neccesary for roads, he would not have been elected.
We could take the Luddite approach.
We could be like the Greenie Party and all learn to ride bicycles, even if you are 80 and in a wheelchair. Or perhaps the Republican approach and all go back to horse and buggies.
Besides at $.00 a gallon, who can afford to go to work anyway ?

Are you sure it was Kaine???… because I know Warner lied thru his teeth about not raising taxes either.

I WANT to pay more taxes. It will bring UTOPIA. And more drones to the civil servants union.

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