Wow!  Oberstar never used his position on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to do anything as awesome as this!  Dangerously blowing through unseen stop signs at night is my definition of freedom plus liberty! (Sarcasm very much intended).

Clearly, eliminating traffic control sighs altogether would save even more precious stolen tax moneez.  Doooo eeeet!

The repubs also like to laugh about all the perfectly good humans they throw away.

OGD:  objects do not deteriorate reliably with environmental exposure?

Perhaps we can create a governmental body to create a subjective criteria for sign quality, and then develop a team of government employees to inspect each sign, individually, on a semi-annual basis, in order to determine the necessity for replacement of each sign.

Yup.  That is a workable plan.

Or we replace the signs on a schedule.

ETA: beaten by Tom.

Don't road signs include important things like Stop Signs?

And don't state and local people respond quickly to failures in meeting federal standards (which might lose them money, like with the overflowing sewers in Duluth).

You can compare and make your assessment in real time Nick. This from the Star Tribune today:
The U.S. House passed a $650 billion Pentagon spending bill Friday that includes a measure by Minnesota Democrat Betty McCollum cutting nearly $125 million for military bands.
 
Even so, McCollum and fellow Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison were among 75 Democrats and 12 Republicans who voted against the bill, which funds war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
The final vote was 336-87.
 
The bands amendment was approved Thursday by a vote of 226-201, limiting spending to $200 million for fiscal year 2012.
 
"At a time when emergency nutritional support is being cut for hungry infants and women and other painful cuts to vulnerable Americans, spending more than $200 million on military bands is an extra America cannot afford," McCollum said.
 
Another McCollum measure that would have curbed military sponsorships in NASCAR races did not pass muster in the House. Republicans portrayed the racing sponsorships as a valuable recruiting tool.
 
So far, there is no similar Senate provision to cut spending on military bands, which was offered as a deficit-reduction measure.

Fantastic, those cost-cutting Republicans are making the changes that COUNT!!

Let's not spend $37m in 10 years (which is an absolutely piddling sum for local and state Gov't) and instead, buy another couple hundred HumVees to send to Afghanistan and blow up. Or maybe we could build a few bridges in Iraq, instead? We have priorities you understand.

I think the real thrust is that he's being piled on for choosing to focus on road sign brightness as his signature issue.

Congressman Cravacckhas done more meaningful work for his district in the pas 6 months than Jim Oberstar ever did. JMHO

Raymond Cravaack's first piece of legislation (turned major focus of first term) was an effort to eliminate federal funding for the U.S. Institute of Peace (also a couple tens of millions of dollars of utterly wasted money).  So perhaps he can't do math, and hopes you can't either.

oh, for geez.

I thought prayer was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is sacrifice for the greater good, not insuring liberty for corporate greed. Sacrifice in an evolved society means contributing for the common good. Taxes! Don't cut money, attack illogical and wasteful spending. *cough* *cough* Like continued funding of the military industrial complex!

You puny weaklings are no match for my personal opinions! Cower before my political leanings!

Yawn.

Get over yourself, dude.

Well that will help the national debt and help MN settle it's budget!!! Who cares if people run into each other because they can't see the sign ... public safety be damned!