Imagine if Obama did these things

APACHERAT · Oct 22, 2019

Moonglow said: ↑

If they wanted to be..I couldn't live without postal services where else would I get my junk mail?
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Along with U.S.postal service came postal roads.

The U.S.Constitution only mentions two types of roads that can be built by the federal government, postal roads and military roads for national defense.

Moonglow · Oct 22, 2019

APACHERAT said: ↑

Along with U.S.postal service came postal roads.

The U.S.Constitution only mentions two types of roads that can be built by the federal government, postal roads and military roads for national defense.
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And after WWII they built the interstate system for the military just like Hitler did...Except Hitler didn't create the speed traps on them..

APACHERAT · Oct 22, 2019

Moonglow said: ↑

And after WWII they built the interstate system for the military just like Hitler did...Except Hitler didn't create the speed traps on them..
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National Defense Highway System
When President Eisenhower went to Kansas to announce the interstate highway system, he announced it as "the National Defense Highway System." In 1956 President Eisenhower signed legislation establishing the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (about 41,000 miles of roads). Since then, DOD has continued to identify and update defense-important highway routes. The National Defense Highway system was designed to move military equipment and personnel efficiently

By the late 1930s, the pressure for construction of transcontinental superhighways was building. It even reached the White House, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt repeatedly expressed interest in construction of a network of toll superhighways as a way of providing more jobs for people out of work. He thought three east-west and three north south routes would be sufficient. Congress, too, decided to explore the concept. The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1938 directed the chief of the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) to study the feasibility of a six route toll network. Some observers thought the plan lacked the vision evident in the popular "Futurama" exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The exhibit's designer, Norman Bel Geddes, imagined the road network of 1960 - 14-lane superhighways crisscrossing the nation, with vehicles moving at speeds as high as 160 km per hour. The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 authorized designation of a 65,000-km "National System of Interstate Highways," to be selected by joint action of the state highway departments. Construction of the interstate system moved slowly.

In 1919, Lt. Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower accompanied the Army's first transcontinental motor convoy from Washington, DC, to San Francisco, thereby forming an image in the future President's mind of a system of cross continental highways that eventually led to the concept of the National Defense Highway System. During World War II, Gen. Eisenhower saw the advantages Germany enjoyed because of the autobahn network. He also noted the enhanced mobility of the Allies when they fought their way into Germany. President Eisenhower established the Highway Trust Fund to create a funding mechanism that enabled the United States to build a national road network similar to the German Autobahn.

From the outset of construction of the Interstate System, the DOD has monitored its progress closely, ensuring direct military input to all phases of construction. The National Defense Highway System was responsible for building many of the first freeways. Its purpose was supposedly to allow for mass evacuation of cities in the event of a nuclear attack...-> https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/ndhs.htm
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The Road to Green Bay
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In 1831, a post office was established in Chicago and for some time cities for 50 miles around became tributary to Chicago for its postal facilities. It wasn’t until the middle 1830’s that settlers in any numbers began to turn their attention to the wooded area to the north of the city.

The primary use of the Green Bay road during the pioneer days of Chicago was as a mail route between the two forts and it is here where most of our information about the conditions of this road are gathered.

Instances of northern settlement can be observed as early as the 1820’s. A mail route between the military posts at Green Bay and Chicago, over which a carrier passed once a month, was in use as early as 1825. The earliest descriptions of travel over the road, known as Green Bay Trail, are from the narratives of the mail carriers who, before the coming of the settlers, traversed the wilderness between Fort Howard in Green Bay, Wisconsin and Fort Dearborn in Chicago. John H. Fonda, with his French Canadian companion, Boiseley, “ran the mail” between these two forts in the winter of 1826. According to Milo Quaife, in his book Chicago’s Highways - Old and New, Fonda was garbed in a smoke-tanned buckskin hunting shirt, trimmed leggings of the same material, a wolf-skin chapeau with the animal’s tail still attached, and moccasins of elk-hide. He carried a heavenly mountaineer’s rifle with shortened barrel and a strap attached so that it could be slung over his back. A powder horn hung by a strap from his shoulder, while a belt around his waist held a sheath knife and a pair of pistols, in addition to a short-handled axe. Attached to the belt, also, was a pouch of mink-skin in which he carried his rifle bullets. Boiseley was dressed similarly and he had with him a long Indian gun and always carried in his belt a large knife, pistol, and hatchet. Like most of the voyagers he was superstitious, and tied to his horn were several charms which were supposed to possess some mysterious power to preserve the wearer from harm.

The most important item of the outfit, however, was the receptacle which contained the mail-a-flat tin box or canister, covered with untanned deer hide.

At this time the mail was carried by messenger on foot. Later, stage coach companies competed for business to deliver the mail as well as to transport passengers. For Fonda and Boiseley however, the round trip of nearly 500 miles on foot usually consumed a month, and since the region traversed was an utter wilderness the men were forced to rely entirely upon their own resources. If for any reason the carrier was delayed beyond the expected time, the presumption was that he had been detained by Indians or fallen a victim to starvation.

Leaving Green Bay on foot, laden with arms, blankets, and provisions, as well as the mail, the two men traveled the two hundred and fifty miles following the Indian trail leading to Green Bay southeast, passing through dense woods of pine interspersed with cedar swamps and the occasional grove of red oak. Encounters with all kinds of animal life supplied them with food as well a little danger such as the occasional encounter with a wildcat. It can be assumed that given the proximity to the lake of what later became Edgewater, this portion of the area traversed by these two men was primarily prairie land with sand dunes, tall grass, and little in the way of trees except along the river banks. While an abundance of wildlife provided nourishment for the long journey, the real hazards of such a trip were those of the hardships and exposure of wilderness travel. A Canadian half-breed who had frozen his feet while carrying the mail from Green Bay to Chicago became the subject of the first capital surgical operation on record to be performed at Chicago. The incident took place in 1832 and the surgery was conducted by Dr. Elijah Harmon, who has been denominated the “Father of Medicine” in Chicago. The procedure consisted of tying up the man, applying a tourniquet to each lower extremity, and with the aid of rusty instruments, removing one entire foot and a large portion of the other.

Though Indians during this time period were generally peaceful, they were liable to avenge upon travelers for harm done to them by some other European, creating another problem for the mail carriers.

Improvements in the road by the military, though slow, made travel on Green Bay Road much easier.

Improvements made for military use
The process of transforming the Green Bay trail into a highway able to accommodate the needs of the European settlers was begun by the federal governments. A logical complement to the establishment of garrisons at Chicago, Green Bay, Portage, and Prairie du Chien was the construction of roads to make possible the free movement of troops between points. The first military road in Wisconsin was designed to connect Fort Howard at Green Bay with Fort Winnebago at the Fox-Wisconsin Portage. In 1830, Congress appropriated funds of $2,000 for the purpose of improving this road. However, the work of surveying the area did not begin until October, 1832. The road as surveyed ran up the south side of the Fox and along the east side of Lake Winnebago, the route being identical as far as Fond du Lac with the Indian trail to Milwaukee. The work of improvement chiefly consisted of cutting a narrow track through the forest. Captain Martin Scott had the oversight of the twelve-mile section east of Lake Winnebago. He cut the road straight as an arrow for the entire distance, and this section was long known as “Scott’s straight cut”.

The road from Chicago to Green Bay dates its beginning from an act of Congress approved June 15, 1832, for the establishment of a post road between these points. A report made to the Secretary of War in October, 1833, states that the funds appropriated had been applied to the purpose intended, while a later report indicates that the survey was completed the following year. Andrea’s History of Chicago states that stakes were driven and blazed along the line, and that as far as Milwaukee the road was “somewhat improved” by cutting out the trees to the width of two rods (33 feet) and laying puncheon and log bridges over the impassable streams. Yet one person who traveled the road in the spring of 1835 relates that from Waukegan to Milwaukee the road was still a primitive Indian trail. Present day single lane roads are thirty-three feet wide and a double lane road measures sixty-six feet wide. With parking not an issue during this time period the thirty-three foot road would have been sufficient for the passage of two truck farming carts or the ability for one to turn around. By 1832, when improvements began on Green Bay Road, farming settlement had already begun in the area covered in this thesis.

Sometime in the mid-1820’s, a man named John K. Clark, generally known as “Indian Clark,” built a cabin some distance up on the North Branch, at Northfield, a few miles west of where Winnetka now stands, and devoted himself to hunting and horse trading. Archibald Clybourn had a farm and slaughtering establishment about four miles up the North Branch, near the spot now known as Clybourn Junction, and furnished vegetables and meat to the military post at Fort Dearborn. Clybourn’s farm for a long time was the limit of settlement to the north. “Indian Clark” was a half brother of Archibald Clybourn.4 The name Green Bay Road at a later date changed to Clark Street but is not named after the early settler John K. Clark. It was named after General George Rogers Clark (1752-181 a revolutionary war hero who captured much of the Northwestern territory including the present state of Illinois from the British.5 However, Clybourn Street is named after John Clark’s half brother Archibald Clybourn.

In the 1840’s and 1850’s, travel on Green Bay road became more frequent as Europeans immigrating from countries such as Luxembourg and Germany were attracted to the northern area’s good farming soil. Here they could own and cultivate far more land than could ever be possible in their home countries. A few of them settled in the area that is now Edgewater, and as a result Green Bay Road became a truck farming route that led into the South Water Market area of Chicago in near the central city. Green Bay Road at this time was being called a road rather than a trail. As were the majority of the road at this time, Green Bay was still a dirt road. However, travel became easier as Chicago began implementing plank roads....

http://www.edgewaterhistory.org/ehs/articles/v10-1-1
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doombug · Oct 22, 2019

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The President has spent 310 days at Trump-branded properties, roughly a third of his time in office, and 237-days at Trump-branded golf properties.

Remember how trump bashed Obama for playing golf?

The Washington Post has logged 13,435 false or misleading claims as of a week ago. The total went significantly higher just today.

Of course to his base it is fake news

The turnover rate of the most senior people around him: 80%, according to Brookings, and the highest rate of Cabinet turnover in the modern history of the presidency.

The last White House press briefing was 7 months ago. A former staple of American life and media coverage, just gone.

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obama did much worse.

KAMALAYKA · Oct 22, 2019

federalist50 said: ↑

Not as low as Adam Schiff's 'Kangaroo Court!', or his continuous lies to the American people!
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Keep telling yourself that.

KAMALAYKA · Oct 22, 2019

doombug said: ↑

obama did much worse.
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Yeah, like being bold enough to be born brown. How dare he.

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