The Federal Government is cheap when it comes to funding interstate highways. This is the 50th Anniversary of the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System. It’s outright poor fiscal management to under fund the budget needs of the States to repair and construct Interstate highways. President Bush wrote in a letter that the interstate highway system contributes to the growth of the economy. And, don’t forget, the interstate highway system made possible that great American tradition, the family driving vacation.

But, the Bush Administration has seriously under funded the Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. The result is that States don’t have access to funding for improvements to the Interstate Highway System. For proof, just look at Texas. If there was adequate funding, the State of Texas would not have to rely on financing the planned Trans-Texas Corridor highway system with a foreign corporation and give the ownership rights and toll rights away for 50 years.

Is this the American ideal? I don’t think ex-President Eisenhower would approve. America, the greatest and richest country in the world, selling giving a foreign corporation ownership rights of it’s national highway system in exchange for financing!!

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