The Falls Church News-Press (a left-leaning publication) paints a sad picture of the power of good intentions.
Several years back, Uncle Sugar offered four electric buses and funds to operate them through Falls Church, Va. Nothing like electric buses as a means of reducing mass transit's carbon footprint!
Needless to say but the electric buses didn't pan out -- they were too maintenance intensive. So they went with diesel.
Now the federal dollars are gone and the Falls Church city manager is trying to find a way to either fund the system (more taxes) or cut back on service. (As any drug pusher knows, once you get folks accustomed to the product, they realize that they can't do without it.)
I suspect that in the thousand plus pages of a mess known as the Reinvestment and Recovery Act -- there are plenty of other similar stimulating ideas. Unfortunately in an effort to solve today's problem they only beget tomorrow's problem.
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