Restraint is the steel partition between a rational
mind and a violent one.  I knew rage. It was fire
in my stomach with no place to go.
from: Refuge
by: Terry Tempst Williams


A few nights ago I learned something that spiked my blood pressure to celestial heights. (its a good thing my cardio work outs are paying off or I might have keeled over right on the spot.)
You'll need a little background for my case study...for the  reasons why there could be  blood spurting from my ears.
For almost a year now-possibly MUCH longer, the residents of St George have been witnessing a highway construction project of gargantuan proportions. I admit we have marveled at times as we watched the huge machinery chip away at a mountain side and haul away who knows how many tons of rock. Granted, one has to appreciate the modern engineering marvels that man can accomplish, but in this case...for what!!!!??? They moved enough rock and mountain to add another lane and shoulder. We are watching a large overpass and on and off ramps being built to nowhere!! A river and stream and a significant irrigation canal had to be corralled and maintained.
Day in and day out a vast majority of St George resident drive by this mega project and wonder why...why oh why are we spending so much money, time and energy for a road going no place!!!??

So can you spell S-T-I-M-U-L-U-S

thats right..stimulus money

So what was it I learned last night to cause a cardio-vascular event?

On VERY good authority I learned just how much this project is costing the good ole' U S of A!!
Please have duct tape handy to keep your head from exploding...
(it wont help though...for every molecule in a person with common sense will now rupture.)
Here is the heart breaking truth....
900 million dollars!!
100 million less than a billion dollars!!!



I need to go lay down.



What would you do with 900 million dollars??






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