Ikes highway system

[ginscpy]

He was a deep-thinker - saw the big picture.

On D-day - Ok we' ll go.

On Korean War - I will go to Korea.

 

[rightwinger]

The interstate highway system was built for national defense purposes. In the 1950s it was not a question of if we would have a nuclear war, but when. Highways were needed to evacuate people and move troops and supplies to affected areas

 

[bripat9643]

The interstate highway system was built for national defense purposes. In the 1950s it was not a question of if we would have a nuclear war, but when. Highways were needed to evacuate people and move troops and supplies to affected areas

Horse manure. The interstate highway system is just another expensive government boondoggle. We already had a perfectly satisfactory system of railroads that didn't cost the taxpayers a cent. The auto companies lobbied the government for the highway system, and like a good stooge Eisenhower complied.

 

[OKTexas]

The interstate highway system was built for national defense purposes. In the 1950s it was not a question of if we would have a nuclear war, but when. Highways were needed to evacuate people and move troops and supplies to affected areas

Horse manure. The interstate highway system is just another expensive government boondoggle. We already had a perfectly satisfactory system of railroads that didn't cost the taxpayers a cent. The auto companies lobbied the government for the highway system, and like a good stooge Eisenhower complied.

Sorry there buba, you got that one wrong. Ike saw how effective Germany's autobon was for moving troops and material, that was his inspiration. The system could also be converted to runways if necessary, it was about defense.

 

[Political Junky]

That highway system put thousands to work and helped bring the US out of the post WWII debt.

 

[percysunshine]

The interstate highway system was built for national defense purposes. In the 1950s it was not a question of if we would have a nuclear war, but when. Highways were needed to evacuate people and move troops and supplies to affected areas

And little did we know that the real enemy were the commie-lib morons in our midsts engaged in a desperate search for the definition of the word 'woody'...

 

[ginscpy]

Ike was plain-spoken.

About VP Nixon - he may have had an idea but I cant recall any - or something like that.........................

 

[rightwinger]

The interstate highway system was built for national defense purposes. In the 1950s it was not a question of if we would have a nuclear war, but when. Highways were needed to evacuate people and move troops and supplies to affected areas

Horse manure. The interstate highway system is just another expensive government boondoggle. We already had a perfectly satisfactory system of railroads that didn't cost the taxpayers a cent. The auto companies lobbied the government for the highway system, and like a good stooge Eisenhower complied.

That was funny fingerboy

You never fail when it comes to presenting your ignorance

 

[FJO]

Without any doubt, the U.S. Interstate Highway System is the best in the world.

When one can travel from Seattle to Miami, from Boston to San Diego, from Portland, OR to Portland ME, from Los Angeles to Jacksonville without hindered by a single traffic light, at one's own convenience and speed, the proponents of rail roads can keep their rail road, I prefer the highways, and I have traveled most of them in all the Lower 48 States.

 

[percysunshine]

At the intersection of every interstate hi-way is a National Guard armory.

 

[Intense]

The interstate highway system was built for national defense purposes. In the 1950s it was not a question of if we would have a nuclear war, but when. Highways were needed to evacuate people and move troops and supplies to affected areas

There is little more important than Transportation, in building and supplying a Society. Money well spent.

 

[ginscpy]

Ike was the most underrated president ever.

50s was the best era ever - andthat ever will be.................................

 

[Intense]

At the intersection of every interstate hi-way is a National Guard armory.

Not exactly. It gets pretty condensed in the North East.

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/images/nhs.pdf

 

[freedombecki]

The interstate highway system was built for national defense purposes. In the 1950s it was not a question of if we would have a nuclear war, but when. Highways were needed to evacuate people and move troops and supplies to affected areas

Horse manure. The interstate highway system is just another expensive government boondoggle. We already had a perfectly satisfactory system of railroads that didn't cost the taxpayers a cent. The auto companies lobbied the government for the highway system, and like a good stooge Eisenhower complied.

That was funny fingerboy

You never fail when it comes to presenting your ignorance

Not entirely, rw. In some states who have next to nothing waged in taxes, people are more conservative because they're into helping each other out through the private employment sector. Some conservatives in cooler climates have never had to escape the path of a hurricane nor evacuated a million people in less than 24 hours on 4-lane highways that would not evacuate that many people in 3 days. We still have states whose populations do not reach a million people yet. I lived in one for 40 years.

For his area, he could be spot on. But for a city like New Orleans where people who were warned to seek higher ground ignored the warnings, a thousand of them died because nobody thought to utilize school buses to evacuate the dense population area of the 9th Ward where many were elderly, never heard of such a storm as Katrina, so they postponed leaving. Everything about what happened was "coulda, woulda, shoulda." The toll would have been higher without reasonably good passages out of the city which everyone could have taken if they had accepted the warning as a very serious life-and-death one. Their washout was like nothing anyone living had ever seen.

Vive la differaunce!

 

[JoeB131]

The interstate highway system was built for national defense purposes. In the 1950s it was not a question of if we would have a nuclear war, but when. Highways were needed to evacuate people and move troops and supplies to affected areas

There was more to it than that.

Ike also saw how the IHS was critical to commerce, to getting products across the country quickly and more effectively than the railroads could.

Again, I look at Ike, and I look at what the GOP has turned into, and I just have to scratch my head.

 

[rightwinger]

Horse manure. The interstate highway system is just another expensive government boondoggle. We already had a perfectly satisfactory system of railroads that didn't cost the taxpayers a cent. The auto companies lobbied the government for the highway system, and like a good stooge Eisenhower complied.

That was funny fingerboy

You never fail when it comes to presenting your ignorance

Not entirely, rw. In some states who have next to nothing waged in taxes, people are more conservative because they're into helping each other out through the private employment sector. Some conservatives in cooler climates have never had to escape the path of a hurricane nor evacuated a million people in less than 24 hours on 4-lane highways that would not evacuate that many people in 3 days. We still have states whose populations do not reach a million people yet. I lived in one for 40 years.

For his area, he could be spot on. But for a city like New Orleans where people who were warned to seek higher ground ignored the warnings, a thousand of them died because nobody thought to utilize school buses to evacuate the dense population area of the 9th Ward where many were elderly, never heard of such a storm as Katrina, so they postponed leaving. Everything about what happened was "coulda, woulda, shoulda." The toll would have been higher without reasonably good passages out of the city which everyone could have taken if they had accepted the warning as a very serious life-and-death one. Their washout was like nothing anyone living had ever seen.

Vive la differaunce!

The interstate highway system helped isolated states like North Dakota and Idaho become part of the US. They were meant as a means to provide needed supplies to those states in the event of nuclear attack

Fingerboy is a clueless asshole living in the 19th century

 

[ginscpy]

The interstate US Hwy system under Ike may have been the most important engineering job in human history.

Hard to imagine driving coast to coast in a matter of days before the interstates.

 

[bripat9643]

The interstate highway system helped isolated states like North Dakota and Idaho become part of the US. They were meant as a means to provide needed supplies to those states in the event of nuclear attack

Fingerboy is a clueless asshole living in the 19th century

Yeah, right, because railroads could not transport needed supplies to North Dakota or Idaho.

The Interstate highway system was an unnecessary boondoggle.

 

[bripat9643]

The interstate highway system was built for national defense purposes. In the 1950s it was not a question of if we would have a nuclear war, but when. Highways were needed to evacuate people and move troops and supplies to affected areas

Horse manure. The interstate highway system is just another expensive government boondoggle. We already had a perfectly satisfactory system of railroads that didn't cost the taxpayers a cent. The auto companies lobbied the government for the highway system, and like a good stooge Eisenhower complied.

That was funny fingerboy

You never fail when it comes to presenting your ignorance

That's not ignorance, shit-for-brains. That is wisdom. You have never posted a single idea in this forum that 100 million other ignoramuses don't also believe.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

The interstate highway system was built for national defense purposes. In the 1950s it was not a question of if we would have a nuclear war, but when. Highways were needed to evacuate people and move troops and supplies to affected areas

Horse manure. The interstate highway system is just another expensive government boondoggle. We already had a perfectly satisfactory system of railroads that didn't cost the taxpayers a cent. The auto companies lobbied the government for the highway system, and like a good stooge Eisenhower complied.

No, Ike's experiences in WW I heavily influenced his thinking. Logistics were a nightmare. Cross-country troop movements took months.