BS: March 2 - Texas Rally

Subject: RE: BS: March 2 - Texas Rally
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Mar 07 - 10:33 AM

The trucking industry is heavily subsidized in this nation--the interstate highways are paid for primarily by federal funds. I wish they'd get the idea and fund the trains as heavily--then we'd have a stellar rapid transit system around the nation. Trains are much more efficient in the long run.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: March 2 - Texas Rally
From: GUEST,Marcher
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 11:51 PM

If the Trans-Texas Corridor is established, it will be used as the model for the rest of the Intercontinental roadway system. It will also change the taxing mechanism used on roadways. Pay by the mile. The people planning this have stated the tax to drive will be about equal to the price of gasoline. For every mile you drive, calculate the cost of the gas you've used X2. And this taxing method will be used nationwide, on all roads, paved and dirt. This is in everyone's backyard. And the taxes collected will be used to build roads owned by private individuals. That is not progress. It is feudalism, which is REgression.

Subject: RE: BS: March 2 - Texas Rally
From: fumblefingers
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 11:44 PM

Trans-Texas Corridor: It's badly needed to handle the truckloads of wetbacks and Mexican produce. Try driving Interstate-35 from Laredo to Gainesville (one end to the other) on a holiday weekend. It's bumper to bumper all the way. The usual NIMBY (not in my back yard) crowd are bitching because it's progress--something they oppose at all costs.

Subject: RE: BS: March 2 - Texas Rally
From: GUEST,Austin Liberal
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 04:38 PM

Well, I guess the conservatives are getting what they voted for. This is a state that votes overwhelmingly for conservatives like Bush and Perry. 15 years of Bush and Perry and still going strong Now, it appears a few of these conservatives who are waking up to the fact that "W" aint their Buddy" dont like what him and Perry have done. Well, the conservative ranchers and big money voted him in, now live with it. you did it to yourselves, to all of us. That damn corridor is going to rip up my area too, but so what, it is what the conservatives voted for and this is a conservative state. Maybe someone should start a recall or begin voting democratic? We impeached Clinton for less!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: March 2 - Texas Rally
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 02:59 PM

I was going to post here when it first appeared but was distracted in my search for other information. This legislation is one of those sneaky issues that is going to come back to bite a lot of people who should have been paying attention and voiced their displeasure about the proposed system.

Howard Garrett, the "Dirt Doctor" organic gardening guru, has been talking about this (is opposed to it) for months on his local radio show.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: March 2 - Texas Rally
From: GUEST,Marcher
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 01:34 PM

Pardon my refreshment.

Subject: BS: March 2 - Texas Rally
From: GUEST, Marcher
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 11:40 PM

http://farmandranchfreedom.org/content/dont-tag-texas

The first link is to a page giving details about a rally in Austin, Texas, on March 2. The group that organized this rally is opposing the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). If implemented, this system will require tracking and tracing of every animal in the U.S. and give "group discounts" to owners of large groups of animals (corporate ranching). This will drive small producers out of business, and there are lots of them in Texas, so there'll be a rally. Looks like about 10 blocks up Congress Avenue. I'll find out when I get there. If you're in the area, you couldn't spend your time in a better way.

The anti-NAIS group is allying with opponents of the Trans-Texas Corridor. Thousands of miles of toll roads (owned by private interests) are scheduled to be built in Texas. The primary group monitoring this is Corridor Watch:

http://www.corridorwatch.org/ttc/index.htm

Texas is the first state to be assaulted on a vast scale with this project, but it will end up affecting all the states. If it is not stopped here, a giant arterial roadway system will run from the Chinese ports on the Pacific Coast of Mexico straight up into northern Canada. Quarter-mile wide roadways, ripping through "environment" and stealing private property. Kind of regardless of the wishes of the "liberals" AND the "conservatives," wouldn't you say? This is what the Kelo Supreme Court decision in the U.S. was about. Private entities can now take your land. For this road system. And Texas is going to be hit hard with this, so opposition has begun. The rally on March 2 will have speakers on the topic, etc. Bring your placards.

Below is a link to a map of the superhighway system. Takes a while to open:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4218.shtml

If a half-million show up at this, the roadway system is dead. And Austin is pretty safe, as far as police riots. They've been sued a lot and lost a lot, so the cops know the boundaries. Bring the family.