Transportation woes

"If the Democrats ran the House in 2016, we would now be paying California type prices for our gasoline."

I almost named this article "You can't cure stupid", but then I caught myself. I did not want any one person to be pointed out as stupid. No, this is a collective stupidity, done by - you guessed it - the collective. They did it when they voted for a gargantuan tax increase in 2006. Yes, that tax increase. The one which was suppose to cure all our transportation ills. In fact, there was going to be so much money, we not only could fix all our roads and bridges, but we could also share 40% of it with the buses and trains people.

The only thing good that came out of this was it outed a few Democrats who were masquerading as Republicans. Other than that, I have not seen any new mass transit coming up to where I live. The roads in the Twin Cities still suck every spring. And (wait for it), the statists in St. Paul are still crying for more money. How much more? Last year our spendy Governor and his merry bunch of DFL henchmen thought that raising the gas tax by 16 cents as well as the sales tax in the metro would be a great idea to help fix our roads. Thank goodness, the Republicans blocked it. If the Democrats ran the House in 2016, we would now be paying California type prices for our gasoline.

One of the chief architects in trying to get more money out of the taxpayers for transportation is Senator Scott Dibble. Of course he is from the metro area. Of course his color is deep blue. Of course he is one our DFL types who believes in money trees. Well Senator Dibble, you may have fooled some of us in 2006, but that ain't happening again in 2016. You got a boat load of money from the 2006 tax increase. Go back and figure out how to make it work.

As soon as our folks in the House start to defund the LRT, that is when we are going to start getting places. We get plenty of money in this state for transportation. And I mean plenty. We have a ton of bike trails (none by where I live) and a ton of bus and train service (none by where I live). So enough already. Most of us drive and need decent roads.

Now that we got rid of most of the charlatan Republicans from the 2006 debacle (somehow one survived), we are ready to tackle this canard head on. NOT ONE MORE PENNY FOR ANYTHING BUT ROADS AND BRIDGES!!! That is our message, sent loud and clear!