54,000 bridges are structurally deficient in the USA....BUT... (state, city, county)

[hifijohn]

Its sad, charity starts at home, we really need to work on our own problems,but that would admit that we have problems.

[Moth]

Originally Posted by Quick Enough

"in theory at least."

Sounds like some in in academia.

All "theory" and NO real experience in the subject they try to tell the rest of us abort who DO have the experience.

LOL!

No. "In theory" means in this context that I would love it if all levels of government did not (more or less) spend more than they take in.

52 years and 10 Presidents later, I have accepted that government spends like an unapologetic drunken sailor.

But please! Enlighten me with your experience! Tell me I'm wrong!

hint: I am not.

[MPowering1]

Originally Posted by Mircea

Perhaps it's because you don't understand the Conservative desire for good government.

If States and counties cannot maintain the 54,107 bridges (out of 56,007) that are structurally deficient and owned by States and counties, then they are not being governed efficiently, and that needs to change.

If business and industry start fleeing States who cannot maintain their infrastructure and relocating to States that do, that's just to bad. The people in those infrastructure-deficient States, being unemployed and severely depressed, can rectify the situation by voting for good efficient government.

It's not up to me, as a resident of Ohio, to make sure that residents in California have jobs and the infrastructure to support business and industry, so that they can have jobs.

You can desire all you want. How is that working out for you?

We fund 90% of Afghanistan's defense budget by sending them more than $4 billion a year. We've spent another $30 billion rebuilding the country. That's just ONE country.

We're the big spenders, making it rain all around the world but we can't drive on decent roads and bridges.

If we'd keep our nose out of other countries and focus on what's going on here, perhaps your Conservative desire for good government would actually come to fruition.

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by MPowering1

We're the big spenders, making it rain all around the world but we can't drive on decent roads and bridges.

That's an issue with State and county governments, not the federal government. Only 1,900 of the 54,107 deficient bridges are on federal highways.

And spending money around the world is necessary to ensure your economic survival in the Future.

[whogo]

The one thing I had hope for Trump on was that he would reverse our interventionist foreign policy. I thought he had a little Pat Buchanan paleo conservative in him. I was wrong.

[TEPLimey]

If only there was a way to find $1.5 trillion to invest in infrastructure over the course of 10 years. But Congress would never increase the deficit by that much, so...

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by TEPLimey

If only there was a way to find $1.5 trillion to invest in infrastructure over the course of 10 years. But Congress would never increase the deficit by that much, so...

For a war, they’d do it in a minute.

[LauraC]

Build more prisons.

[totsuka]

There is always money for failed Great Society programs for the last 50 years too.

[Haakon]

Originally Posted by TEPLimey

If only there was a way to find $1.5 trillion to invest in infrastructure over the course of 10 years. But Congress would never increase the deficit by that much, so...

If only we had that $10 trillion that Obama wasted, all of those bridges would be brand new.