<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:09 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Note how empty and how vast and how sunny it is out there. Note the stark desert beauty everywhere. Go across Highway 50 in Nevada is a great example. Stop somewhere. Right in the middle of the road if you wish, no one is coming, either direction. Get out of your car, and listen. That is a sound you seldom hear: your heart beating and your lungs breathing. </span></p>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>While highway 50 is a breathtaking example of loneliness, it's also a great example of why the government shouldn't be in charge of deciding where roads go. What a tremendous waste of taxpayer dollars! Any private company that would have built it as a toll road would have LONG AGO gone out of business.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I hate that highways are the example people always bring up of why we need large government projects. They do it so poorly.</div><div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>