Connecticut New Home Construction

Do you think Texas like at least 12 other states SHOULD require (by Texas state law) automatic fire safety suppresion systems (sprinkler systems) in ALL NEWLY construted homes both "stick" and "manufactured" homes effective on January 1, 2009 and are Texas children taught about fire safety in school? Where I am from (state of Connecticut) we are required by law effective January 1, 2004 (as an option) and MANDATORY on October 1, 2004 to have automatic fire safety suppresion systems in ALL NEW residential construction (homes) and since about the early '70s the fire departments have gone to the schools and teach children about the dangers of fire.Does Texas do this? Do Texas parents "care" enough to teach there children about the dangers of fire and what to do in the event of fire (other than just dial 911)? Are they taught to know what a smoke detector looks like and what it sounds like when "activated". Are they taught to get out of the house first before calling 911?

. no the added cost of adding these systems as well as the upkeep of these systems is beyond most buyers means. For the state to continue to be the Big Brother nanny state telling everyone what they have to do is giving away your freedom of choice. If you want a system you can have one built into the home, but to mandate it, is just plain socialism/fascism. It amazes me is people run from their nanny states where their rules and regulations have ruined their economies and lives to another state and the people want to have the new state start making those same rules and laws. If you want a sprinkler system have one added, if you want fire safety, teach it to your kids yourself! Instead of expecting the state to do your job as a parent, you take the initiative and tell your kids where to get out of the house at and when to do so. Its quite easy to do and you dont need a state mandate to do this.

2008-01-16 22:06:14 by TedsGMC

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45: Testing how to control private home appliances in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts from an off-site computer ($800,000)

44: Repainting a rarely-used bridge in North Carolina ($3.1 million)

43: Renovating a desolate Wisconsin bridge that averages 10 cars a day ($426,000)

42: 4 new buses for New Hampshire ($2 million)

41: Repaving a 1-mile stretch of Atlanta road that had parts of it already repaved in 2007 ($490,000)

40: Florida beauty school tuition ($2.3 million)

39: Extending a bike path to the Minnesota Twins stadium ($500,000)

38: Beautification of Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard ($1.1 million)

37: Colorado Dragon Boat Festival ($10,000)

36: Developing the next generation of supersonic corporate jets in Maryland that could cost $80 million dollars each ($4.7 million)

35: New spring training facilities for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies ($30 million)

34: Demolishing 35 old laboratories in New Mexico ($212 million)

33: Putting free WiFi, Internet kiosks and interactive history lessons in 2 Texas rest stops ($13.8 million)

32: Replacing a single boat motor on a government boat in D.C. ($10,500)

31: Developing the next generation of football gloves in Pennsylvania ($150,000)

30: Pedestrian bridge to nowhere in West Virginia ($80,000)

29: Replacing all signage on 5 miles of road in Rhode Island ($4,403,205)

28: Installing a geothermal energy system to heat the "incredible shrinking mall" in Tennessee ($5 million)

27: University in Minnesota studying how to get the homeless to stop smoking ($230,000)

26: Large woody habitat rehabilitation project in Wisconsin ($16,800)

25: Replacing escalators in the parking garage of one D.C. metro station ($4.3 million)

24: Building an airstrip in a community most Alaskans have never even heard of ($14,707,949)

23: Bike and pedestrian paths connecting Camden, N.J. to Philadelphia, Penn. when there's already a bridge that connects them ($23 million)

22: Sending 10 university undergrads each year from North Carolina to Costa Rica to study the rainforests ($564,000)

21: Road signs touting stimulus funds at work in Ohio ($1 million)

20: Researching how paying attention improves performance of difficult tasks in Connecticut ($850,000)

19: Kentucky Transportation Department awarding contracts to companies associated with a road contractor accused of bribing the previous state transportation secretary ($24 million)

18: Amtrak losing $32 per passenger nationally but rewarded with windfall ($1.3 billion)

17: Widening an Arizona interstate even though the company that won the contract has a history of tax fraud and pollution ($21.8 million)

16: Replace existing dumbwaiters in New York ($351,807)

15: Deer underpass in Wyoming ($1,239,693)

14: Arizona universities examining the division of labor in ant colonies (combined $950,000)

13: Fire station without firefighters in Nevada ($2 million)

12: "Clown" theatrical production in Pennsylvania ($25,000)

11: Maryland town gets money but doesn't know what to do with it ($25,000)

10: Investing in nation-wide wind power (but majority of money has gone to foreign companies) ($2 billion)

9: Resurfacing a tennis court in Montana ($50,000)

8: University in Indiana studying why young men do not like to wear condoms ($221,355)

7: Funds for Massachusetts roadway construction to companies that have defrauded taxpayers, polluted the environment and have paid tens of thousands of dollars in fines for violating workplace safety laws (millions)

6: Sending 11 students and 4 teachers from an Arkansas university to the U.N. climate change convention in Copenhagen, using almost 54,000 lbs of carbon dioxide from air travel alone ($50,000)

5: Storytelling festival in Utah ($15,000)

4: Door mats to the Department of the Army in Texas ($14,675)

3: University in New York researching young adults who drink malt liquor and smoke pot ($389,357)

2: Solar panels for climbing gym in Colorado ($157,800)

1: Grant for one Massachusetts university for "robobees" (miniature flying robot bees) ($2 million)
http://a11news.com/1404/stimulus-waste-l ist/
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politi cs/After-a-flurry-of-stimulus-spending_- questionable-projects-pile-up-8474249-68 709732.html
http://hannity.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03 /12/waste-102-the-final-list/
http://projects.propublica.org/tables/st imulus-investigations
The Iraq War has not cost 3 trillion, The Iraq War and Afghanistan War combined has cost 1.05 trillion and Im not sure where you get your information but funding for the War was not under the Stimulus bill.
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costof war_home

Well I think you hit the nail on the head. There was too much extra pork tacked on it. They talked about it and yet still did exactly what they said they wouldn't do. Our government is incompetent. And unfortunately people just keep on buying into the corporate agenda ignorantly. Their talking points are the corporate talking points, all the while the corporations sit there not saying a word. It's repulsive.

2010-03-12 23:34:38 by American Man

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