“ THEY SAID IT”


“YOU GO ONE YEAR WITHOUT SPENDING $500 MILLION, HOW MANY LIVES ARE GOING TO BE LOST, HOW MANY ACCIDENTS ARE WE GOING TO HAVE? TO ME, THAT’S A BIGGER ISSUE THAN ECONOMIC


DEVELOPMENT.” —Frank Vozel, deputy director and chief engineer for the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, expresses concern that many highway projects to create wider lanes, shoulders and other improvements to make routes safer and reduce the number and severity of traffic crashes may not be built. Fifty-six (56) Arkansas road and bridge projects worth $500 million will go unbuilt if the federal Highway Trust Fund runs dry as forecast in 2015.


“The key here is nobody had to sacrifice their core principles. Our principles are: Don’t raise taxes, reduce the deficit.”


—Through a partnership with liberal Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announced a budget agreement that sets top-line spending figures through fiscal 2015, partially replaces unpopular spending cuts with other savings and non-tax revenue sources, and offers some modest deficit reduction.


“This is not about the


gas tax. It’s about paying for what we use and


investing in our future. It


isn’t popular — everybody wants somebody else to take the first step.”


—U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) unveiled the “Update,


Promote and Develop America’s Transportation Essentials Act of 2013” which would gradually add 15 cents to diesel and fuel tax by 2016 to fill a widening shortfall in the federal government’s main source of transportation funding.


“Mandela taught us the


power of action, but also ideas; the importance of


reason and arguments; the need to study not only


those you agree with, but those who you don’t.”


—President Barack Obama on the passing of former South African President and civil rights leader, Nelson Mandela.


“How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?”


—Pope Francis made headlines (again) by criticizing the effectiveness of trickle-down economics. ARKANSAS TRUCKING REPORT | Issue 6 2013 9


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