Toll Roads, They Should Be Paying Us

Now let me get this straight? You want me to drive on a road with potholes that ruin my car and pay you for the privilege? Come again? Let us dissect this logic for a moment shall we? You pay money to drive on screwed up roads to get near where you want to be while the roads and bumps break your car and your equipment and then you wait in line for a chance to pay them for such a wonderful service? Please, Thomas Paine help me out here, because from where I am parked on this so called expressway there seems to be an unparalleled lack of common sense. Yes it is uncommon, but how can the masses stand for this unbelievable irony?

The DOT and EPA wish to regulate the amount of pollution your car puts out and then put their own toll both collectors at risk each day from unnecessary intakes of carbon monoxide and say see "We are providing jobs" What? You are killing people and causing more pollution, dummies, ever thought about this affects government worker"s health care cost? I guess us citizens get stuck with that enormous bill too? If the toll booths in America were taken down tomorrow and the flow of efficiency was returned to you and I and our families, businesses and own government, everyone would be more productive and therefore more people would be employed and pay into the system and therefore more money for the states for all services including roads, more money in the pockets of American's, less pollution, less lung disease, lower health care costs for SENIORS as if they are all that matters what about their grand kids obviously they are equally as concerned there.

Why is it that we as Americans cannot see the forest for the trees? When you raise the toll from $1.00 to 1.35 it takes longer for the person in the car to get the right change and longer for the tollbooth operator to make change and therefore causes increased traffic. If the Dulles Greenway Privately run toll way cannot make money and has never been profitable, what on God's little blue planet makes politicians and bureaucrats believe they are profitable? They are not. People in the past have said that Americans are enslaved economically. Enslaved to the dollar that is. Others have said such as the Futurists that in the future machines will surpass the human beings capabilities of intelligence and that we will be enslaved to the computer minds of machines.

Perhaps this is a possible future as depicted in Terminator III and various science fiction movies and novels. But the biggest travesty in the World is to be enslaved to a bunch of rebar and concrete. Think of it we are working for the concrete, that concrete is not working for us. We are enslaved to the stupidest material. A friggin road? How can we be so stupid as to serve a piece of concrete, which was built to serve us? We live and work to serve infrastructure. We pay money to a system which loses money so that we can poison ourselves with noxious gases, be made less efficient and productive, lose precious time and we accept that? Why? Why does America and the smartest group of homo-sapiens culture in the world accept this as being acceptable? We are allowing our lives to be controlled and our time absconded with by a piece of concrete built on dirt, which does not go where we need it too, takes extra time to get too the on-ramps, slows down and impedes progress and inhibits the forward progress of mankind in this important time period in our human experience. That is unacceptable.

What is difficult to fathom is that everyone thinks there is nothing they can do about it; it is just the way it is? That somehow "They" cannot be changed? Well "They" is us. We are the government, we call the shots, and we are allowing us to screw us over and worship a concrete "ROAD", not a statue, pyramid, giant cross, no, nothing more than a road. And we gladly accept this and feed the damn thing money every single day simply so we may be inconvenienced by it. The recent increases across the country from Detroit to Canada, Sam Houston Express Way, Bay Bridge, CT, NY, PA, NJ, VA, MA, ME, NH, OH, MI, IL, IN, etc. turnpikes is in counter to the so-called deflationary tendencies of our local situation as described in the Beige Sheets by the FED. If we are not having any inflation then why are they increasing the costs? Why? The fees should be lowered and the turnpikes should be eliminated. They are squandering the money and polluting our children and teenage soccer players, this is destroying our minds, lungs and irritating those who have degenerative diseases, allergies and health conditions through no fault of their own. It is poisoning our people, costing us money, inhibiting economic prosperity all for the so-called assistance to the "CONCRETE" Are we on drugs? What are we thinking here? Those bumpy roads which we have to go out of our way to use and over pay to drive on? So why do I care? Why has this become personal to me? Well, I do a lot of traveling and recently we had our blitzmobile (a very expensive office-motorhome on wheels) battered by the unnecessary curb sized potholes and bumps of the NY Turnpike, which we paid a total of $42.00 for the privilege to drive on. Some privilege; that is extortion and terrorism to yourself, your family and to your hard earned personal property. In CT someone else is upset;

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Everyone is upset, the entire system is broken, every one is getting reamed and we just act like there is nothing we can do about it? Think on it.

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