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You realize that infrastructure deteriorates every day, right? It has been about 5 years since the last of those projects were finished. Betcha there are a few potholes in those roads already, much less in the stuff that wasn't part of the projects.
Oh, I Understand, but maybe you don't get it...the bill passed and the money was given....then he laughed in your face, saying, well, i guess those shovel ready jobs just were not there.....
And, so it's been 8 years....there are still pot holes, why?
So predictable, the usual urban bigots out in force. No roads in rural areas?
It's the market. Low traffic means low profits means low priority for investors. It takes a government to extend infrastructure to low-density areas. Sorry.
I'm not familiar with it myself, but I would've thought the tolls would be to pay for maintenance and upkeep and the bond for actual construction?
Nope, the answer was that it was to build more toll roads in other communities, nice racket if you can get away with it, oh have an Italian company run it, how very American. Heck, Perry suggested making all highways toll roads until the backlash put a halt to that BS.
Oh, I Understand, but maybe you don't get it...the bill passed and the money was given....then he laughed in your face, saying, well, i guess those shovel ready jobs just were not there.....
And, so it's been 8 years....there are still pot holes, why?
Yes, Both Democrats and Republicans use the same tactic, funny thing is most Partisans only see half of it.
It's the market. Low traffic means low profits means low priority for investors. It takes a government to extend infrastructure to low-density areas. Sorry.
Don't overlook the fact that many rural dwellers don't WANT infrastructure. The whole reason we bought our place in the PA location we did was because we wanted to be surrounded by nothing. Sometimes our little dirt road is potholed, or in the winter, impassable. Sometimes trees fall across it. Guess what? I've hauled a load of gravel down to the road to fill in two potholes myself. The rest, the 4X4 goes right over. Occasionally we haul groceries up to the house with snowshoes and sled. We have a chainsaw (or two), and went down to the road to clear the last tree that fell, but the farmer up the road from us was already doing it.
We have a generator and have stocked up enough food so that we won't be going hungry, as a few others in our town did, when mudslides from Irene wiped out both roads big enough for a semi, and no groceries were making it into town. Rural life - truly rural - is much different than urban. (Kind of a 'duh', but so many people have no clue.)
There's a limit to how removed from society you can be, but we've become so used to not relying on ourselves AT ALL, not being prepared for any type of emergency, not having even a rudimentary understanding of how to provide for ourselves.... there's got to be some middle road (pun intended) between government provisions and extreme self providence.
Yes, Both Democrats and Republicans use the same tactic, funny thing is most Partisans only see half of it.
Yup, except i don't see any repubs talking about shovel ready jobs and then after being given the money say, oh well....those jobs just were not there...laugh...laugh..laugh.....
And you're right, partisans see what they want....
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