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You know: the case was

Barth — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:36:48 +0000

You know: the case was made, especially by the businesses ruined by the interstates. I was a kid then---with no real opinion---except that I sure liked the idea of nothiving to crawl up the Wilbur Cross in Connecticut after my family moved from Massachusetts to New Jersey only to spend about a weekend every other month heading back "home." Still, the little Italian restaurant we would stop in on halfway up undoubtedly went out of business and that's sad.

Funny how today many people who live where I do take the old route 17 past the ruins of the Red Apple, instead of the Thruway. I have no nostalgia for the summers when route 17 was just one long traffic jam from the Catskills down to Jersey, but the Red Apple was fun.

Eisenhighways. Awesome. I

Michael Maiello — Sun, 22 May 2011 16:52:56 +0000

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Eisenhighways. Awesome. I could just see the Tea Partiers demanding a repeal of the interstate highway system. "State roads work just fine! Down with I-40. Up with Route 66!"

Their enemies, they have told

Richard Day — Sun, 22 May 2011 13:17:53 +0000

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Their enemies, they have told us, are public employees: teachers, police officers, firefighters, and the unions that protect their---our---rights to be dealt with fairly

This says it all Barth.

Ohio and Indiana and Wisconsin (Wisconsin for chrissakes!) and Florida....

The list goes on and on.

It is all so very sad. All the problems and real or at least possible solutions cannot even be discussed!

I believe this is correct. I

vancenolan — Sun, 22 May 2011 04:00:36 +0000

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I believe this is correct. I also believe this is the kind of plan that we are likley to end up with, though somewhat less generous as it will be forced on us by our creditors who won't give a hair about healthcare for seniors and the needy. Read "Penny Health Insurance" articles if you dont have insurance.