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Our roads, bridges, water pipes, etc.....are outdated, neglected, and failing. We need to pay for the update and repair or we will pay more later!
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America’s infrastructure faces two enormous and simultaneous challenges, explains Lawrence H. Roth, P.E., G.E., F.ASCE, ASCE’s deputy executive director. “Much of it was built following World War II, so it’s fifty or sixty years old and it’s being attacked by decay and neglect,” Roth notes. “Plus, our population is still growing dramatically, so not only do we have old and outdated infrastructure, we are also putting new demands on it. It’s just being stretched in many different ways.” Roth warns that “we’ve probably got ticking time bombs out there, and if we don’t take care of our infrastructure, if we continue to neglect its maintenance, then it’s not going to be able to take care of us.”
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assigned an overall grade of D to 15 infrastructure categories on the basis of condition, performance, capacity, and funding. Information from that report—which examined aviation, bridges, dams, drinking water, energy, hazardous waste, navigable waterways, public parks and recreation, rail, roads, schools, security, solid waste, mass transit, and wastewater—was widely cited during last year’s debate over America’s infrastructure.
So much for the shining city on the hill. The lights are going out and the roads to the hill are eroding yet the GOP wants to give tax breaks to the wealthy instead of repairing our great nation.
I am all for fixing the infrastructure but all I see are funds going toward the wrong places....
We need to find the money or we will pay much more in the future. It is kind of like not replacing a leaking roof because a home owner doesn't want to take out a loan. Very unwise.
Fixing the infrastructure with public funds is socialism and should not be done. Or something idiotic like that.
Americans love to blow money on interstate construction - and they love to neglect just about everything else. Priorities seem a bit messed up - but so be it.
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Where are we going to get the money?
I am all for fixing the infrastructure but all I see are funds going toward the wrong places....
well if we stop giving money to places like pakistan and all the other thug countries that hate us, and exit afghanistan and put the troops on the border to stop the flow of illegals asap, and legalize weed across the board. then they would have the money..and would actually create jobs right here in the usa..
oh wait, that makes to much sense, something the ponzis on capital hill seem to lack
The money for infrastructure upkeep has already been collected, but has been stolen and misappropriated as is customary with anything the government oversees.
Sorry o.p. all those give aways you support are starting to catch up with america.
The money for infrastructure upkeep has already been collected, but has been stolen and misappropriated as is customary with anything the government oversees.
Sorry o.p. all those give aways you support are starting to catch up with america.
The infrastructure of our country is a "give away?' What company wants to build a factory in a country with crumbling roads and bridges, subpar airports, failing power grids, or an incomplete high-speed broadband network?
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Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire (D), who has visited Shanghai and other parts of China as part of her efforts to develop her state's economy, told HuffPost "we see our infrastructure deteriorating and becoming inadequate in comparison to those we're in competition with."
"That construction that we see going on in China?" she said. "That used to be us, that used to be us doing all that investment."
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