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Laxman

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24. It's A Little More Than That....

Thu Feb 13, 2014, 08:57 AM

Feb 2014

it was mostly to be able to grab that money for the budget instead of truly funding the Transportation Trust Fund and it allowed him to trumpet how he stood up to "big government infrastructure spending" for the tea party crowd.

This is a huge mess. Mostly for future generations. The tunnel is an essential project that must be done at some point for the good of the national economy-let alone the NY-NJ region. Now, instead of 2017, its probably been pushed out past my lifetime.

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