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Clearly, you don't know the difference between a deficit and debt.
Laughing at you. Not with you.
See that $236.2M bubble, thats ONLY Public debt, not intragovernmental debt.. Its like calculating what you spend, and ignoring your wifes spending..
Clearly an idiot would do such a thing, and to backup me being correct, lets go to the governments own accounting office in charge of calculating the debt
You mean one of those high-priced public safety engineers didn't see this coming and close the bridge?
I actually believe they gave a warning about the bridge. I heard engineers rated the bridge around 52, and the average bridge in the state has a rating of 80..
Obama decided though to give millions to Microsoft to build a bridge on their campus.
16 trillion in debt.. why didn't that go to infrastructure?
And for all the whining I hear about big oil and their profits and how the government should tax them... well what the heck is our gas tax for if not for maintaining our roads.. I bet the government is making more per gallon in gas tax then the oil companies in profit
I actually believe they gave a warning about the bridge. I heard engineers rated the bridge around 52, and the average bridge in the state has a rating of 80..
Obama decided though to give millions to Microsoft to build a bridge on their campus.
16 trillion in debt.. why didn't that go to infrastructure?
And for all the whining I hear about big oil and their profits and how the government should tax them... well what the heck is our gas tax for if not for maintaining our roads.. I bet the government is making more per gallon in gas tax then the oil companies in profit
I actually believe they gave a warning about the bridge. I heard engineers rated the bridge around 52, and the average bridge in the state has a rating of 80..
Obama decided though to give millions to Microsoft to build a bridge on their campus.
A truck hit the bridge. A ship hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida and it collapsed. When large, heavy objects strike bridges, they can collapse.
Thank Tim Eyman, who championed the $35 car tab in Washington and left the state without funds to fix their roads.
In 2012, the Federal Highway Administration said 67,000 — 11% — of the nation's 607,000 bridges were structurally deficient. That means the bridges are not unsafe but must be closely monitored and inspected or repaired. That percentage is little changed since 2007 when 12% of the nation's bridges were listed as structurally deficient and the I-35 bridge collapsed in Minneapolis.
It gets even worse. From the story, the bridge that collapsed was allowed to stay open even though its rating was 47 (not 52 as I previously thought),
The bridge, which was inspected last August and November, had a sufficiency rating of 47 out of 100 at its November 2012 inspection, state Transportation Department spokesman Noel Brady said Friday. The state average is 80, according to an Associated Press analysis.
And to top it off.
The bridge was not classified as structurally deficient, but a Federal Highway Administration database listed it as being "functionally obsolete" — a category for bridges whose design is outdated, such as having narrow shoulders and low clearance underneath.
This bridge isnt even deficient, which makes me wonder how bad the other 67K bridges are?
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