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July 19, 2005
Pull Over, Buddy; I've Got a Few Questions For You
It's bad enough that cops stop drivers for doing perfectly harmless things like not wearing a seatbelt or driving faster than the government's arbitrary speed limit. Now Pennsylvania motorists can look forward to being stopped . . . to fill out a survey about the roads.
Why are they doing this survey? "The information will help planners at the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission better direct federal transportation dollars within the 10-county region . . . ." So we're using stolen money ($650,000 for this particular study) to waste travelers' valuable time supposedly to figure out how to spend other stolen money, when the fact is that, as always, the money will be spent in the ways deemed most politically advantageous. Wonderful.
Posted by Mike Tennant at July 19, 2005 11:14 AM
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