Iowa Defense Alliance

A couple weeks back I wrote about highway G-71 in Marion County, Iowa. It was getting a new black top surface and I said it wouldn’t last 30 years as the funding to do this project came from a borrowing plan our wonderful Iowa law makers and Governor Culver signed into law this past week. Yesterday as I was traveling on this new road I hit a pothole about a mile or so west of where I live. Yes I hit a pothole kind of hard to believe on a road barely 2 weeks old. The new blacktop doesn’t even have the white lines painted on yet. Governor Culver signed into law his plan called I-Jobs he said quote “We’re making an investment in our future. We’re going to modernize our state’s infrastructure, and most importantly, create jobs in doing so,” Culver said. We sure modernized the new highway. I said we should have patched the old surface as it has a lot of semi traffic on it and the road bed under it isn’t very good and the new blacktop wasn’t put on thick enough to last very long anyways. But you figured it should last longer than couple weeks before a new pothole is in it. We haven’t even begun to start paying this money back yet and we will be paying on it for next 30 years. I would rather have safe bridges as where I live I can’t go any direction to far without crossing a bridge. The potholes I can avoid.I know my cousin Courtney who is 14 isn’t to happy to know somewhere down the road she will be paying her state income tax money in to pay for this road for 26 years. This is investing in Iowa’s future? A project like this is merely short term it was done in less than 3 weeks. A project like this will not be a long term investment in Iowa as blacktop roads don’t last long. Thanks Governor Culver for wasting our kids future before they are even born.