. . . does not constitute an emergency on my part. I believe I read that on my eighth-grade math teacher’s coffee mug. That sentiment permeates my skull as I wade through the various news items and articles on blogs and newspapers regarding the transportation debates and debacles. A lack of planning on the parts of other areas of the Commonwealth *cough* Tidewater, NOVA *cough* does not constitute an emergency or “crisis” on my part.

I’ve often lived in areas where I had to commute more than thirty or forty minutes to get to school or to work. It wasn’t a crisis, it was a choice. If the choice is made to continue funding new roads, new development is sure to follow and then we’re back where we started.

For the rest of us to have to pay, whether it be in the form of higher fees, an added tax or through the reduction of our general fund is unjust. It makes the rest of us enablers and further leads to the “New Jerseyfication” of our state. Let’s stop feeding the beast and I bet the beast will stop growing.

Another coffee mug philosophy I read was, “Bad sex is better than no sex!” Does the same hold true for bad bills? Will the Republicans rather be responsible for a bad bill than no bill? Stay tuned as the General Assembly turns . . .