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A Major Victory for Texas
June 23, 2008
I am pleased to report that last week we received notice that the Texas Department of Transportation will recommend the I-69 Project be developed using existing highway facilities instead of the proposed massive new Trans Texas Corridor/NAFTA Superhighway. According to the Texas Transportation Commissioner, consideration is no longer being given to new corridors and other proposals for a new highway footprint for this project. A major looming threat to property rights and national sovereignty is removed with this encouraging announcement.
Public outcry was cited as the main reason for this decision. I was very impressed to learn that the TxDOT received nearly 28,000 public comments on this matter, and that some 12,000 Texans attended the 47 public hearings held earlier this year. They could not ignore this tsunami of strong public opinion against the proposed plans. I was especially proud of how informed my constituents became on the subject, and how eloquently and respectfully they spoke and conducted themselves, considering how upsetting the plans were for our communities in
This is a major victory for the people of
However, now is not the time to rest on our laurels. The bittersweet aspect of this victory is that we had to fight at all. We took time away from family and friends, doing other things, to attend these meetings, inform others, write letters, post signs and submit our complaints, and we should not have had to. Government should let us be, if we are peaceful citizens, harming no one. In a perfect world, government could be trusted to act in the best interests of the people without overwhelming pressure of this kind. This is not a perfect world. Constant pressure is needed to keep government in check, and we succeeded this time. But this will not be the last time citizen efforts and involvement will be required. We still face many unreasonable encroachments of big government today, from confiscatory, economy-strangling taxation to creeping disregard of the right of habeas corpus and other Constitutional rights, to thousands of nuisance bureaucratic regulations interfering with our every day lives. We have drifted far from what the founding fathers envisioned for this nation. Last week was just one victory towards getting back on the right path. We must continue to hold politicians’ feet to the Constitutional fire. If I had to guess, they will probably try to implement the NAFTA Superhighway again sometime in the future.
It is a never-ending battle, but it must be fought, and can be won. I am proud to stand with my constituents in this fight, and in the other fights we have ahead of us.
Posted by Ron Paul (06-23-2008, 11:44 AM) filed under Unspecified
Comments
- Comment by GEO
- June 25, 2008 06:13 PM
- Glad to read this article!
- Comment by Jim
- June 26, 2008 02:37 AM
- Very relieving news!
- Comment by David Tampien
- June 26, 2008 11:53 AM
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Thank you Ron Paul and the Texans who stood up to the Big G who want to RULE the World.
Congratulations. :-)
- Comment by Pauline Hadley
- June 28, 2008 11:50 AM
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With gas and diesel so high, rails could be the answer to transportation, but do we want the Chinese imports with their poisons imported?
Americans need to learn to live within their means. Smaller homes, cars, perhaps learn from Japan and other countries.
- Comment by D L Edwards
- July 01, 2008 09:15 AM
- Americans are the stupidest people in the world, but they can rise from the ashes if informed, Ron Paul helps Americans gain wisdom, thank you Ron Paul. 40 % vote, we kill more people here in the free world than we should, education is in a shamble, criminals have more rights than regular people, just a few of the reasons we are so stupid, Supreme Court, 9 people decide our fate, whether we like it or not, Are we stupid or what??
- Comment by Daniel P. McKernan
- July 01, 2008 11:55 AM
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"It is the duty of every Patriot to protect his country from its government."
Thomas Paine
- Comment by Jacqueline Sorenson, Mrs.
- July 14, 2008 10:11 PM
- Rep.Ron Paul, you are a miracle. Thank you for the NAFTA highways ( for now) being stopped. Your are a true patriot. Thank you for all your work.
- Comment by Igor
- July 18, 2008 03:06 PM
- Ron Paul is a real fighter for liberty and a clear champion of our constitution. If only others would have the courage to follow our constitution and oppose big government...
- Comment by K.L. Rochester
- September 01, 2008 10:57 AM
- We can catch our breath, for now, on this one! But they will be back. If you have the Goberman talking to you about eminent domain with--the goberment is here and wants to help you syndrome--please remember the 'GOLD CLAUSE'. Just because they can force you into a compensation contract you retain all rights as to a two party contract, you also have the right to add to or take away from that contract. President Nixon put gold coin back into our pockets that President Roosevelt's 'Gaddianton--Congress' robbed from us (1933-1975). Now that the US Mint makes them again, demand payment in 20 dollar Gold Eagles instead of the privately owned Federal Reserve Note $20/e-money credit. The more WE the People sue for payment in gold dollar this will force congress to print and circulate the United States Note(s) again. I write this for the hard money advocates. All others who don't like the United States of America just disregard and delete.
- Comment by Thomas Lowe
- November 06, 2008 02:15 PM
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(Woman)
Well Dr. Franklin what type of goverment did we get--a Republic or Monarchy?
(Benjamin Franklin)A Republic, if you can keep it.
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