Bolivar Ferry In The Houston Ship Channel—How About A Tea Party Citizen-Navy?
When the boats that are part of the Bolivar Ferry service need some repairs or a tune-up, it seems that they are taken to the spot you see above in the Houston Ship Channel.
The red boat and the yellow boat in the picture are each part of the Bolivar Ferry.
The Bolivar Ferry is a free government service offered by the State of Texas that takes folks between Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula.
The Bolivar Chamber of Commerce has no objections at all to this subsidy.
The Houston Ship Channel receives all sorts of government funds to stay up and running.
I’m not aware of any large industrial concerns complaining about socialism at the Houston Ship Channel.
Maybe Tea Party cells and small government advocates could muster up volunteer crews to run the ferry and to operate the Houston Ship Channel.
Surely the Tea Party has considered raising a citizen-volunteer navy to go along with all the talk of citizen militias and defending freedom.
(Photo copyright 2011 by Neil Aquino.)
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