National Road Fund Broke In One Month

I just read a news article by LISA STARK and KATE BARRETT Sept. 5, 2008 about the money for the nationwide projects of repairing our roads and bridges being depleted to almost nothing by one month's time. Since drivers are driving less to conserve their gas and save some pocket change because they want to have enough to buy their groceries which has also rose in costs the Department of Transportation are warning that they now have less revenue to pay for the road and bridge repairs across our nation.

Yep, less purchases at the pump means less money in the kettle for our highways. In fact Lisa writes, "the department called for an immediate infusion of $8 billion in tax revenues into the fund. That's precisely what some Democrats in Congress have been trying to do -- and a move that the administration, just six weeks ago, opposed."

But the Transportation Secretary, Mary E Peters a bias Republican, tells us: "Every family understands that constantly spending more than you earn is a recipe for insolvency. Yet many in Congress have refused to apply that same common-sense thinking to the federal program that currently accounts for close to half of all highway and transit investments."

Yet Senator Murray, Democrat stated "It's too bad that it has taken an emergency to force the administration to pull its head out of the sand and appreciate how serious this problem is."

Well, at least the proof that the Democrats in Congress had been trying to do precisely what was needed with the Republican Bush Administration opposing them just six weeks ago is CATALOGED in the Congress Library. Oh, yeah! Too bad Mary E. Peters put her foot in her mouth, and lied flat out because now her words blaming Congress wrongly is also recorded in the news for historical facts of her Republican lies.