What's preventing us from creating jobs and preserving our infrastructure? Take roads, for example.
We may accept either premise: (A) Road construction is underfunded and we create patch work (filling pot holes, etc., as needed. If this is true, then - ineffeicincies at best but more likely - extreme waste is built into this module. Ever wonder why the Department of Transportation (DOT) is more inclined to do the work when pressured?
Take potholes for example.You've seen trucks with a two to three person crew as they've filled potholes. And then, they transport to another area, 20 miles away, fill another hole and they're off to across town, tommorrow. Isn't there something wrong with the logistics here?
Someone asked why can't they just finish one area, right, and them move on to the next. Shame on you. The answer should be obvious.....because it works, that's why they don't do it, efficiently. They work for the government. That's why they waste.
Back to the point; consider optin B.
(B) Money is wasted and transportation is overfunded. We may go so far as to use stereotypes in our expression. Example: Four workers standing along side the road while one is working. Of course, that has never happened.
And then there are the facts.
According to Brian Dolan, president of the Maryland Asphalt Association (and we're paraphrasing): In the early 1990s the U.S. congress along with the DOT plannned for and funded ISTEA (Tntermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act). This bill help produce annual federal highway spending in excess of twenty bilion dollars.
See Maryland Asphalt Association at http://www.mdasphalt.org
Whether we approach from either perspective(to repair or to prevent), each side, congress and DOT agree that prevention is under funded. If underfunded, the public is underserved.
Underfunded? What happened to the thirty billion dollars ($30 billion)?
What thrity billion? you might ask.
In the early 1990s the U.S. congress along with the DOT created ISTEA with a six year authorization saw annual federal hiighway spending in the $20 billion dollar range.
The last federal gas tax increase was successful creating a surplus in the
federal transportation trust fund. This tax created an enormus surplus, but congress spent this trust fund money....some thirty billion dollars.
In the back door, stood the Surface Transportation Fund created to fund highway preservation. These funds can be easily used for other purposes. The construction of a socially productive non-profit organization that can produce income through a civic function; for example a museum, a zoo, a piece of art, etc. is more likely to receive funding than an open pot hole.
Jaguar's position is, why not create jobs by spending less on organizations created by congress and the DOT and rebbuild our roads and bridges that are destined to collapse affecting transportation as we know it for many years to come; doing so will help create jobs and induce consumer spending.
To JUST SAY NO to sound business practices will not.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
What Happened to the Jobs?
Where are the jobs?
As you know, most work opportunities have gone into road construction. Most construction involves re-cycled asphalt. This process saves the government money, but what happens with these savings?
After all, it's only costing the government 20 cents on a dollar to acquire asphalt related material. Why then isn't some of those savings used in the department of transportation in some ways described under Jaguar 5311-F?
In Extreme Home Makeover (televised) homes are built in one week. Why does it take the government so long to build with stimulus money? More questions than answers have been generated by the administration's inability to provide funding for job creating opportunities.
Case in point, there is a transportation project effective in Georgia that highly resembles the Jaguar plan. Marta (Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit System), Greyhound, GRTA (Georgia Rapid Transit Authority) and more have access to our plan. Their plan has been funded by $60,000,000 but administrators seem confused as to what to do with the money. MARTA has a copy of the Jaguar plan which was given to Linda Morgan and one of the attorneys who does consultant work with MARTA; yet, there are no jobs.
Alabama returned over $25,000,000 to the federal government reporting they had no plan for transportation. Alabama never created a plan to properly submit to acquire stimulus funding from the very beginning.
Alabama never responded to the Jaguar plan. Insiders felt the plan was too transparent.
It seems that to become a millionaire, lately, one should run for office. The free enterprise system has been stifled by such government officials who access these funds for use other than to create jobs. Only the inside cronies are receiving funding and small businesses such as Jaguar Express, Inc. are left in the cold because we are accountable for every dollar we propose to invest toward job creation. It seems that the idea of transparency is frightening to those in office who do not wish to document the use of taxpayers funds.
The new trend among old cronies is to ask for money....receive taxpayers dollars and pocket them. Period.
Jaguar Express, Inc. created a viable plan with utmost accountability, yet has not received any funds to date. "If Jaguar Express cannot create twenty thousand (20,000) jobs with adequate stimulus funding, we will return the entire company over to the public," says Alonzo Evans, "after all, it's the taxpayers money to begin with."
Here's what Jaguar is doing: Since we have not yet received federal funding under the Tiger Grant, we have taken private measures to work with solid accountable small businesses toward creating jobs. We are contracted with real estate developers, solar energy companies, automobile re-sellers and several other entities toward using private money to create jobs, rather that wait in futility for the federal government to do what it should have done a year ago.
Jaguar Express, Inc. has also contracted with a local supplier and blender of organic fertilizers resulting in the development of proprietary fertilizers and weed killers. This effort is creating jobs and making the process of farming more efficient.
If we can do it with small operators, why can't the federal government apply a measure of forward thinking toward this end?
As you know, most work opportunities have gone into road construction. Most construction involves re-cycled asphalt. This process saves the government money, but what happens with these savings?
After all, it's only costing the government 20 cents on a dollar to acquire asphalt related material. Why then isn't some of those savings used in the department of transportation in some ways described under Jaguar 5311-F?
In Extreme Home Makeover (televised) homes are built in one week. Why does it take the government so long to build with stimulus money? More questions than answers have been generated by the administration's inability to provide funding for job creating opportunities.
Case in point, there is a transportation project effective in Georgia that highly resembles the Jaguar plan. Marta (Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit System), Greyhound, GRTA (Georgia Rapid Transit Authority) and more have access to our plan. Their plan has been funded by $60,000,000 but administrators seem confused as to what to do with the money. MARTA has a copy of the Jaguar plan which was given to Linda Morgan and one of the attorneys who does consultant work with MARTA; yet, there are no jobs.
Alabama returned over $25,000,000 to the federal government reporting they had no plan for transportation. Alabama never created a plan to properly submit to acquire stimulus funding from the very beginning.
Alabama never responded to the Jaguar plan. Insiders felt the plan was too transparent.
It seems that to become a millionaire, lately, one should run for office. The free enterprise system has been stifled by such government officials who access these funds for use other than to create jobs. Only the inside cronies are receiving funding and small businesses such as Jaguar Express, Inc. are left in the cold because we are accountable for every dollar we propose to invest toward job creation. It seems that the idea of transparency is frightening to those in office who do not wish to document the use of taxpayers funds.
The new trend among old cronies is to ask for money....receive taxpayers dollars and pocket them. Period.
Jaguar Express, Inc. created a viable plan with utmost accountability, yet has not received any funds to date. "If Jaguar Express cannot create twenty thousand (20,000) jobs with adequate stimulus funding, we will return the entire company over to the public," says Alonzo Evans, "after all, it's the taxpayers money to begin with."
Here's what Jaguar is doing: Since we have not yet received federal funding under the Tiger Grant, we have taken private measures to work with solid accountable small businesses toward creating jobs. We are contracted with real estate developers, solar energy companies, automobile re-sellers and several other entities toward using private money to create jobs, rather that wait in futility for the federal government to do what it should have done a year ago.
Jaguar Express, Inc. has also contracted with a local supplier and blender of organic fertilizers resulting in the development of proprietary fertilizers and weed killers. This effort is creating jobs and making the process of farming more efficient.
If we can do it with small operators, why can't the federal government apply a measure of forward thinking toward this end?
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