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Why waste money repaving a good road?

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Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Why waste money repaving a good road?

To the Editor:

Repaving a perfectly good Smoky Mountain Expressway appears to be another classic example of government wasteful spending.

I used to work for a company years ago that did business with government contractors. Each year they would needlessly spend funds or risk having their budgets reduced for the next year. Is there an explanation for this repaving that citizens are not aware of? From my perspective (and others), we don’t see any purpose for this. It seems there are so many other needs that the city, county or state has and could use funds for.

If there is a reasonable explanation and if I’ve missed it, can you please reprint it?

Jack West

Balsam

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