Gentleman:
According to a Google search, the budget for the State Highway Administration is $1.7 billion. Do you believe all of the projects included in this budget are critical to the states survival? As you make the many cuts in spending that impact the daily lives of the people of the state, would it not make sense to put off the repaving of some roads? Does a highway that has existed for decades suddenly need an overpass, or curbs or a round about? Is it more important to make cuts in health care, education or public safety?
Do you think you can force yourselves to forego campaign contributions from paving contractors or their families? Are the jobs of construction workers more important than those of care givers? Please don't give us the usual political smoke that all jobs are important while you protect those of your contributors at the expense of everyone else.
Joel Brandes
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Mr. Brandes:
Why is it that one assumes that the jobs of "caregivers" are "more important" than those of construction workers? Do you not think those construction workers have the same basic needs and obligations that need to be paid as "caregivers". Why should money be taken from my budget, as one of those lowly road construction workers, to give to the high and mighty "caregiver"?
It's not just the paving contractor that suffers when funding is pulled from the highway budget. It affects the hundreds, if not thousands, of independent hauling contractors and their families. It affects the thousands of workers hired not only by the paving companies but the hauling contractors. It affects the economy as these families can no longer pay their bills, when they have trucks and equipment costing $50,000 or more repossessed, when they have their homes foreclosed on, when they go on public assistance...
Then yes, Mr. Brandes, the mighty caregivers will then need a bigger budget when these lowly construction workers lose their medical insurance and cannot pay their bills for the routine and not so routine medical issues that may and do arise.
Do me and the rest of us lowly construction workers a favor. Look beyond the big paving company and realize that many little people are behind these larger companies.
-your local lowly construction worker
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