I'll be here all week! 

Again, another knee-slapper! You're on a roll!

The sections for Lawyers, Bail Bonds and Escorts are still big advertisers

No, that can't be true! The market operates efficiently.  it has a profit motive that is lacking in the government.     

No, that can't be true! The market operates efficiently.  it has a profit motive that is lacking in the government.     

No, that can't be true! The market operates efficiently.  it has a profit motive that is lacking in the government.     

The sections for Lawyers, Bail Bonds and Escorts are still big advertisers

I'd love to blame a lot of things on the govt, but sadly I think this is just businesses thinking they are getting something for their ad dollars.

I'd love to blame a lot of things on the govt, but sadly I think this is just businesses thinking they are getting something for their ad dollars.

I put this here because there's probably some subsidy involved somewhere.

 miamizsun wrote:
What this fails to mention (and readers of the NYT can be forgiven for not following the politics of flyover country) is that all that expense-challenging happened over Gov. Schweitzer's strident objection. He wanted to spend much more of that surplus at the time, and now takes credit for fiscal restraint he opposed.

No, liar, I didn't mention any road at all.  You made the wrong ASSumption.

Let's take Alamogordo for instance.  Home of White Sands Missile Range.  Holloman AFB.  The former home of the F-117 fleet.  The place where the first atomic explosion occurred.  An active military base and research facility with a real need for safe and secure transportation.

Driving to Alamogordo from the nearest civilian airport, Albuquerque, is long and treacherous, with steep climbs and mountain passes.  Not the route I'd choose to ship fissile material and high explosives, or the people who work with them.

The next nearest civilian airport in El Paso requires military credentials to enter Fort Bliss in Texas, drive many miles over barren land with no rest stops, gas stations or cellular coverage, and pop out the front gate at White Sands.  And despite the wide open spaces, the speed limit is a strictly enforced 35-55 MPH the whole way.  That route has military protection most (but not all) of the way, but isn't a road I'd send a science geek onto.

You referenced the road from El Paso to Alamogordo, sociopath, and no amount of deflection will change that....

Dear sociopath,

You hurt my feelings!

Is it my fault that you don't take a moment to find out that I-54 doesn't go through Albuquerque?  Or that my destination was White Sands, not Holloman?  That New Mexico is not all flat prairie?  Or do you just not know the difference?

Now that I think about it, I don't mind if people who can't understand the written word say I have "no credibility".

Your friend,

Servo

You have no credibility here anymore so sell it somewhere else sociopath.

Don't be an asshole, asshole.

Let's take Alamogordo for instance.  Home of White Sands Missile Range.  Holloman AFB.  The former home of the F-117 fleet.  The place where the first atomic explosion occurred.  An active military base and research facility with a real need for safe and secure transportation.

Driving to Alamogordo from the nearest civilian airport, Albuquerque, is long and treacherous, with steep climbs and mountain passes.  Not the route I'd choose to ship fissile material and high explosives, or the people who work with them.

The next nearest civilian airport in El Paso requires military credentials to enter Fort Bliss in Texas, drive many miles over barren land with no rest stops, gas stations or cellular coverage, and pop out the front gate at White Sands.  And despite the wide open spaces, the speed limit is a strictly enforced 35-55 MPH the whole way.  That route has military protection most (but not all) of the way, but isn't a road I'd send a science geek onto.

Sure, the Air Force could resurrect the old Military Air Transport Service "MATS Mules" to replace the airlines, but the cost per flight would really be something to scream about.

The bottom line is that there is a valid need for air transport to and from Alamogordo, and a small subsidy is the least expensive alternative.  I can imagine that the other airports have equally good reasons to be subsidized.  No, Republicans hurting places and people that happen to be  served by Democratic members of Congress is NOT a valid excuse to put national security in jeopardy.

Don't be coy, jagov.

Don't blame me.  I don't know WTF he's going on about.  What does Route 54 have to do with "Gov't Waste, Fraud & Abuse"?