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To: Slagle who wrote (839)	9/24/2005 11:35:19 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 218598

When the Constitution was written , well over 90% of the post road traffic was not mail. There is/was a clear defense need to move large numbers of people, evacuate cities, and provide aircraft landing places which were spread out all over. Most of this was sen in Germany with the autobahns. Ironically, the German army relied mostly on railroads, but the Allies found the road system very useful. There's also the WWI example of moving troops by taxicab to save Paris. "No justification" becase there is already one older network is a long way from unconstitutional. We have more than one transcontenental railroad, and except for the Great Northern, each one paid for more than once by taxpayers. Redundancy, stupidity, waste, and grandiose schemes are not unconstitutional. ***** "You really think they need a 20 lane wide interstate for the postman ?" At the time, it was very important to get those very large Sears,Roebuck catalogs out to rural areas in a timely manner, or the S--- would hit the fan....