I notice the stimulus funds are being used on Toll Roads

[itsrobert]

Looks like some money is going toward resurfacing and adding another lane on the Toll Road 73 in Orange County, CA. Why should toll roads get stimulus funds if we can't use them without paying a toll? Many other 'free'ways in Southern California could use the stimulus funds.

[havocmom]

1. um, isn't the point of the stimulus $$ to create jobs?

Are the roads being worked on by elves and brownies who do not get paid?

[itsrobert]

2. umm, wouldn't those jobs also be created if the money was used on 'free' roads

And not roads that are exclusive.

[John Q. Citizen]

3. They could be spent building me a new house. That would create jobs.

Are you saying that fixing public roads wouldn't create jobs?

Or are you saying that the funds are better spent enriching private interests?

[itsrobert]

4. +1 n/t

n/t

[galileoreloaded]

6. Not sure if serious???

[LiberalFighter]

7. Aren't the tolls suppose to pay for the toll roads?

[malaise]

5. Good news

Mitch the chinless one suggested that Obama fund the war in Afghanistan with the failed stimulus money. That fucker isn't even funny.

[rufus dog]

8. I agree with you on this one

Although jobs are created it could be much better utilized on the 5, the 55, Ortega, road extensions. This would be an issue of the OC Supervisors don't you think?

On a side not, doing some work in Indiana, those Repubs get some fine pork based upon the conditions of their roads and the huge, nice, new airport.

[itsrobert]

9. Don't forget about the 91

From the 55 to Wier Canyon Rd.

[Nikki Stone1]

10. Lots of rich folks along the 73. Laguna Beach and all.

Those tolls keep going up and up.

[Nikki Stone1]

11. Lots of rich folks along the 73. Laguna Beach and all.

Those tolls keep going up and up.