re: #24 Killgore Trout

Of course, the wingnuts Republicans want to kill this job creating investment to improve the country…

This is exactly what the problem was here in NJ with the new train tunnel to NYC.

As much as I don’t like Christie, I’m actually okay with the project being halted if it was true that NJ was bearing an undue burden of the construction costs. However, canceling it outright was beyond stupid.

We’ve lost tens of thousands of jobs in the short term. In the long term, people who might have moved to NJ due to the tunnel making the NYC commute easier will look elsewhere. That’s all kinds of tax revenue, both sales and real estate, NJ will never realize.

In addition, NJ has one train tunnel to NYC that’s one freaking century old. I swear to God, I just don’t get the current Republican line of thinking, particularly in light of the article Kilgore linked to.

It’s like they’ve got a knife to Uncle Sam’s throat and have already opened up an artery. I don’t want to think like this, but it really does seem like the GOP is willing to destroy the economy to get what they want.