Roadway Ripoff

 Ever drive through roadwork and think, "didn't they just work on this?"  They probably did, but for your district to keep the money they get for roadway upkeep, they need to spend it, OUR money, actually.

Here is how it works, each district gets a certain amount that their reps claim they need, if they don't spend it, some other rep (crook) claims, "well, they don't need that, let's transfer that to my district", then they fight over who gets the money, it can't just sit, or be sent back to taxpayers, goodness knows they can't send us back our own money...

It's just another game of corruption they play, with OUR money, wasting OUR time, and when they steal a wad from someone else, it just becomes another campaign bragging point about the money they "secured" for their district.

The fact is, hundreds of millions are wasted every year, on projects that don't need to happen, paying companies that vastly overcharge for a government contract, instead of using common sense on how to utilize funds.

Notice that Kansas City and St Louis always have major highway projects going on ... ALWAYS, never stops anything but you trying to get where you are going, and it's mostly one big scam, again, with OUR money. 

Then there are the politics behind the politics, or is it just chance that Highway 65 going to Branson gets work done during the tourist season, rather than before or after?  People know there are bad delays going to Branson, they plan a vacation for St Louis or Kansas City or elsewhere instead.  Politicians can "influence" when work is done in certain places.

It's just more of the "that's how the game works" nonsense in government that has to be changed, we need to the corruption to stop at all levels.  We need these overgrown egos out of office and it's a clear sign why we need term limits and some kind of headlock on the lobbyists who influence these things, we need far more transparency and far less backroom deals.

Don't be FOOL enough to say, "it's all the democrats" or "it's all the republicans", it's BOTH, we need a major overhaul of the system, and all the lifers OUT of office.

We could fund our Veterans Hospitals, we could fund school meals, we could fund things that actually need fixing with all that, and in the end, we send what is left, back to the taxpayers and then cut the damn budget.

Let's not forget that at one time, we could finance roads, schools and all kinds of other projects without a federal income tax, without an IRS.  We NEED to get back to those days, and one great start is called, The FairTax, each state needs to adopt this and we need to adopt it nationally.  The end of the irs, the end of April 15th and closer to the end of wasteful spending.