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I am watching/listening now, and I began wondering, what happened to that$16 trillion bailout that was supposed to take care of all of this? Remember those "shovel ready" job's Obama talked about? So, he lied again.
$16 trill, even if say 50% went to construction, would be a drop in the bucket. We have a huge problem money cannot solve. We have high traffic density in regions with outrageously aged infrastructure in dire need of flat out replacement, but the existing traffic means you can't just close Route XYZ for months or years on end while that occurs.
That bridge collapse in Minnesota..I'd expect many more at least that bad long-term.
I am watching/listening now, and I began wondering, what happened to that$16 trillion bailout that was supposed to take care of all of this? Remember those "shovel ready" job's Obama talked about? So, he lied again.
$16 trill, even if say 50% went to construction, would be a drop in the bucket. We have a huge problem money cannot solve. We have high traffic density in regions with outrageously aged infrastructure in dire need of flat out replacement, but the existing traffic means you can't just close Route XYZ for months or years on end while that occurs.
That bridge collapse in Minnesota..I'd expect many more at least that bad long-term.
The bridge that collapsed in Minnesota was one of the newer bridges. It collapsed because of a design flaw, not because it was worn out, old or in bad shape. (outside of the design flaw)
The bridge that collapsed in Minnesota was one of the newer bridges. It collapsed because of a design flaw, not because it was worn out, old or in bad shape. (outside of the design flaw)
I was on a long-term assignment in Minneapolis that day and drove across that bridge about 45 minutes before it collapsed.
Mn may have, but most major cities feature infrastructure whose useful life expired several decades ago, Since then, massive structures were built over them. It may simply be economically impossible as well as not feasible (logistics standpoint) to deal with that issue.
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I am watching/listening now, and I began wondering, what happened to that$16 trillion bailout that was supposed to take care of all of this? Remember those "shovel ready" job's Obama talked about? So, he lied again.
one could rebuild all the infrastructure for 16 trillion.!!!! you must be mistaking 16 billion.. but hay billions and trillions are like millions to politicians..
I am watching/listening now, and I began wondering, what happened to that$16 trillion bailout that was supposed to take care of all of this? Remember those "shovel ready" job's Obama talked about? So, he lied again.
Do you even have an idea of how much it would cost to repair all of the infrastructure in this country?
Also, what $16 trillion bailout was suppose to go to shovel ready projects? There was a $16 trillion bailout that went to the financial/banking industry to bailout the people who should be in prison right now, but that bailout had nothing to do with shovel ready projects.
The stimulus you are referring to was $840 billion, and only a portion of it went to shovel ready projects. Also, shovel ready meant projects that were ready to go and just waiting for money, it did not include projects that needed to happen that weren't yet ready to start construction.
They must be wrong didn't Obama massive 800 Billion infrastructure stimulus with massive shovel ready jobs fix that. That is what he sold it as but really it went to special interest groups as discover long ago. Point the finger at person who was allowed to spend as wished>Obama. The infrastructure they talked about was part of the sells job. Never sold has alternative energy company funding; keep local government employee from feeling any job loses to include teachers. Two years later it happened anyway and we saw the outrage from having to be part of what happened to so many in private sector two years before. Basically divided up among democratic special interest. Obama proposed and even democrats didn't want to spend 800 billion again with Obama in charge. We just voted to spend billions from reserve STATE reserve funds on just that here. Tolls is one way if you can fund it otherwise and users pay.
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