$ 6 million in funding secured for new Santa Clara safety project. Thanks for nothin’ De Fazio. The WP news service calls your actions a “parting gift” before retirement. Anybody with any amount of common sense calls it sticking it to the taxpayers one last time. Let me break it down for you. This country’s government is $31 trillion in debt. It takes in $3.3 trillion every year in revenue. You guys just voted to spend what amounts to $2 trillion to keep things running for one year. You Democrats are climate fanatics. If the world’s weather is going to hell in a handbasket, as you say, one would think you’d want to hold some money back for the ever-increasing weather disasters you continuously rave about. But no, you’re spending it as fast as you’re getting it. NO WONDER we’re $31 trillion in debt! Before you asked for $6 million in pork in exchange for your vote and added to our tax burden, did you ever think of leaving Washington long enough to actually LOOK at the area your local Democrat buddies said needed that pedestrian bridge? The walking and bicycling bums and local residents go UNDER the Beltline, where it crosses River Road just fine. Somebody convinced you, at one of the $ 1000-a-plate Democrat fundraisers, no doubt, that they needed to spend $6 million for a pedestrian bridge so they would be inconvenienced by bums using those crosswalks when they’re trying to turn right or left to the Beltline’s onramp. Speaking of those crosswalks. The concrete is barely dry from all the ADA improvements they just installed, which cost God knows how much. If the bridge will make those useless, all THAT tax money was spent for nothin’ and just became your bridge to nowhere. Maybe they’ll name the crosswalks after you and install signs next to the “push to walk” signs that won’t work once the new bridge goes in.
