Paved and Confused, What Krugman, Maddow, and the press corps don't understand about gravel roads.
source: http://www.slate.com/id/2264109/
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A paved road. Click image to expand.Some states probably overbuilt their roads systems USA Today was among the first to sound the alarm that the nation's paved roads were ripped up and turned to gravel in a Feb. 4 piece hedlined "Tight Times Put Gravel on the Road." Bloomberg BusinessWeek got its piece of the story in April with "In North Dakota, a Rebirth of Gravel Roads," and the Wall Street Journal contributed "Roads to Ruin: Towns Rip Up the Pavement" on July 17.
"America is now on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere," wrote Krugman.
The next night, Rachel Maddow echoed Krugman on her MSNBC show, specifically citing the Journal story, calling gravelization a "wacky Luddite solution."
"We are literally unpaving the roads," Maddow exclaimed.
As long as she insists on being literal about it, Maddow must concede that the number of miles of road being unpaved is trivially low. By USA Today's count, 100 miles in Michigan, three miles in Tuscarora State Forest, Pa., and 11 miles in Hancock County, Ind., were unpaved over the last two years. Add to that number the 10 miles of roads in Stutsman County, N.D., that the BusinessWeek story reported were scheduled for shredding and the 100 miles of unpaving performed in South Dakota last year reported in the Wall Street Journal, and you've got just 224 miles of demoted road.
http://www.slate.com/id/2264109/
"America is now on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere," wrote Krugman.
The next night, Rachel Maddow echoed Krugman on her MSNBC show, specifically citing the Journal story, calling gravelization a "wacky Luddite solution."
"We are literally unpaving the roads," Maddow exclaimed.
As long as she insists on being literal about it, Maddow must concede that the number of miles of road being unpaved is trivially low. By USA Today's count, 100 miles in Michigan, three miles in Tuscarora State Forest, Pa., and 11 miles in Hancock County, Ind., were unpaved over the last two years. Add to that number the 10 miles of roads in Stutsman County, N.D., that the BusinessWeek story reported were scheduled for shredding and the 100 miles of unpaving performed in South Dakota last year reported in the Wall Street Journal, and you've got just 224 miles of demoted road.
http://www.slate.com/id/2264109/
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You know I really enjoy Paul Krugman & Rachel Maddow, they usually get the facts right unlike Fox News but don't blow the horn yet.
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