Jon Stewart on the Transportation Funding Crisis: “This is So Stupid”
Jon Stewart devoted eight minutes to the Highway Trust Fund funding problem in last night's episode and, in our humble opinion, he NAILED it.
3:40 PM PDT on July 17, 2014
Jon Stewart devoted eight minutes to the Highway Trust Fund funding problem in last night’s episode and, in our humble opinion, he NAILED it.
If this doesn’t make you want to pound your head against the nearest hard object, you might want to check your pulse.
Stewart concludes that lawmakers’ response to this easily fixable problem is basically summed up as: “F*** it, we’ll probably all be dead in ten years anyway.” Lawmakers just put a solution off again for another eight months.
This video makes great explainer for all your aunts, uncles and co-workers that are dying to get up to speed on one of the most frustrating and long-running problems in transportation in the United States.
Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.
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