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We have neglected the maintenance on America's infrastructure for so long, it is crumbling! Now we have disintegrating gas lines, grids unable to keep up with our energy needs, collapsing bridges,...........etc
People for less government and lower taxes are going to get what they asked for..........a country that can no longer sustain them!
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America's civil engineers think the nation's aging and rusty infrastructure is just not making the grade.
The American Society of Civil Engineers issued an infrastructure report card Wednesday giving a bleak cumulative ranking of D.
"We've been talking about this for many many years," Patrick Natale, the group's executive director, told CNN.
"We really haven't had the leadership or will to take action on it. The bottom line is that a failing infrastructure cannot support a thriving economy."
Nah, no bias on a report from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The infrastructure in the U.S. certainly isn't perfect but the hype-meter is pegging when it's describes as crumbling, this thing makes it sounds there are millions without power and one can't cross a bridge with fear for life.
I certainly am not going to turst teh present administrtion with any mney for it;look at the stimulus that was sold as a massive infrastruture bill that would creat jobs. Bascilly now that the money was mostly spent on specail interest and about &% infrastructure we have borrowed way too much already.Rememeber the old we have shovel ready preojects.
if the politicians in washington (both parties), would actually USE THE MONEY for infrastructure..(ie the gas tax that we pay 18.6 cents a gallon on) and use the money for what it is SUPPOSED to used for, instead of funding 'get out and vote' things...then our infrastructure would be ok.....
Nah, no bias on a report from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The infrastructure in the U.S. certainly isn't perfect but the hype-meter is pegging when it's describes as crumbling, this thing makes it sounds there are millions without power and one can't cross a bridge with fear for life.
Tell that to the people in MN who were on the bridge that collapsed!
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Pawlenty vetoed transportation funding bills and ignored reports that massive infrastructure repairs were needed. Then the part of I-35W that goes over the Mississippi river just sort of fell down, right in the middle of the day. A Minnesota legislative report recently indicated that a lack of Minnesota's Department of Transportation may have contributed to a lack of maintenance at that bridge, but Pawlenty insists that bridges just fall over sometimes for no reason.
Twenty heavily trafficked bridges "may need to be replaced" because they are structurally deficient, according to national bridge inspection data. These bridges scored a lower structural integrity rating than the I-35W bridge in Minnesota before its collapse.
We have neglected the maintenance on America's infrastructure for so long, it is crumbling! Now we have disintegrating gas lines, grids unable to keep up with our energy needs, collapsing bridges,...........etc
People for less government and lower taxes are going to get what they asked for..........a country that can no longer sustain them!
The money that should have been spent on the infrastructure was devoted instead to welfare programs, foreign aid, etc.
My own state (VT) has been doing this for years since the dems took over here, putting off maintenance to fund social programs (in spite of rising taxes). Now things are crumbling and there's no money to fix it. There's two bridges here, very important ones, over a river that should have been replaced years ago. One had a part of the road bed fall through a few years back, there's boards covering holes in the pedestrian portion, and new holes opening up in the road bed. The other bridge has a steel temporary bridge over it to prevent collapse. And there's several smaller bridges falling apart, the roads are full of holes, etc. In one town...
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