On the subject of toll roads, I could agree with the principle that funds collected should be re-invested in the efficient operation of the facility in question, but that would logically include perpetual resurfacing & maintenenance costs, as well as subsidizing transit operations in the same corridor. There simply is no such thing as “paying off” the costs of a road.

As with using toll revenue to make the frequency of transit service attractive enough to lure erstwhile drivers, tolls – like any prices for other goods and services – serve to ration finite resources in the face of virtually infinite demand. Keeping tolls, especially if they can be adjusted to maintain flowing conditions during peak consumption periods, after initial capital costs to construct a roadway have been payed down, would help maintain the value of that investment.

This is a republican paradigm for bad healthcare Perhaps Richardson was depresed because white hick Republicans are the only legislature in the US to refuse to fund the 8th largest Metro transit system in the U.S.

I’ve always got a dog in the fight, a stone in my pocket, and an iron in the fire. I keep abreast, I stay armed, and my eye’s on the prize. I live by the code, I love ‘em and leave ‘em and I call ‘em as I see ‘em………

sorry, I love cliches as much as the next man.

“Soldiers killed at Fort Hood died on the battlefield, killed by an enemy combatant who, astonishingly, managed to evade detection despite obvious clues. This massacre requires in-depth independent investigation.”

Wooten’s probably right about Major Hasan. Psychoanalysis of post traumatic stress disorder usually happens AFTER a tour of duty in a battle zone, not before. Could this be the first case of pre-battle fatigue? Booby trapping a rorschach test is the new IED? (Lie down on the couch and let me add to the skeletons in your closet).

I’m not willing to give the army a black eye based on the first blush of information about this massacre. The Ft. Hood disaster was either a disgruntled bi-polar major-gone-postal, or an attack by Al Queda.

I’m glad we’ve got Freud and Sun Tzu’s son, Jim Wooten, to hazard a guess in this minefield. It’s one thing to harbor resentment against radical Islam, it’s another thing to foment rebellion and treason in the armed forces by instilling doubt about the good men and women serving this great country.

Nobody questions Wooten’s patriotism, but I’ll respectfully wait till the investigation is over………

But of course the majority of Americans who favor the public option can go *bleep* themselves. Thanks again, Jon Stewart, for showing us how our Representative Republic works.

Very good point. Of course, they don’t want to risk their own money; they sort of side step that part of the free market that they supposedly love.

Secondly you speak of the feeding frenzy of the AFL-CIO over fixing the airline industry and the Transportation Secretary holding a closed door forum. Yes, I agree that is not right. But Jim, your colleague Jay Bookman sites (in today’s AJC), right below your article, that our own Governor is holding water meetings where “the press and public are barred from attending”. How is it that you didn’t see fit to report on this? Seems to me that a closed to the press and public meeting is what it is (whether initiated by a Democrat or Republican). So how about rewriting your headline to read, “So much for the Dems’ (and Repubs’) big tent”.