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Well, if his goal wasn't in line with Mussolini... I'd want him to succeed.I'd love to see that done. BUT....
The eco-whackos prevent the building of bridges like the Highway 36 bridge outside of Stillwater, MN due to consideration of the 'beauty' of the area and the sake of some water fowl.
Dams flood 'protected' wetlands, not going to get them done till you stop the lawsuits and NIMBY freakouts. This is some of the crap that must be ended.
BTW, the bus shown there on the 35W bridge collapse, it's a First Student bus (a competitor of my company's). Had 40 kids on it. Only one injury... the driver. And she was injured BECAUSE she was belted in. Compressed spine. All the kids, thank God were fine. I now drive across that bridge at least once a day in my bus, and consider that every time.
BTW, more than 80% of the school buses in the Twin Cities are privately owned. Our company alone has almost 200 of them, and we're not even the biggest of the 15+ companies in the cities.
Regardless, the transportation infrastructure of this nation is one area I have no problem in government paying private contractors to build for them, and is the responsibility for the Feds and states to maintain as a public good. I do not agree that is the case with rail or air.
And that's where the president and congress should start. On the areas that can be agreed on. I don't cross a bridge without thinking about Minnesota and the number 70,000.
With this "we want him to fail" mentality, it will never happen. But it would be nice.
It's all about his goals, policies and visions for this nation.
Congress has had the purse strings wide open for everything but actual infrastructure jobs. Now who is it that has had control in congress again?
So why do they want to kill the bill?Since Republicans got everything they wanted on Health Care reform
So why do they want to kill the bill?Since Republicans got everything they wanted on Health Care reform
So why do they want to kill the bill?Since Republicans got everything they wanted on Health Care reform
So why do they want to kill the bill?Since Republicans got everything they wanted on Health Care reform
Cause there was at least one thing in there they did not want?
Obama's goals, policies and visions are mainstream, sound, American and patriotic.
Obama's goals, policies and visions are mainstream, sound, American and patriotic.
Nationalizing Health Care.
Nationalizing domestic auto industry
Breaking contract law
Capping private business pay
Retroactive tax increases
Retroactive law making
Deliberately inflating money supply to devalue dollar
These are mainstream goals??? These are sound???
They are madness.
Dams, bridges, roads, power grid, rail, waterways. Since 2000, every system in America has fallen into disrepair. You have the dam breaking in Hawaii and the packed bridge falling during rush hour in Minnesota. Power outages. 70,000 unsafe bridges nationwide. It's only a matter of time. My advice don't live downstream from a dam.
Republicans say, "So what? It's not our job to rebuild America". I say they are wrong and it's the right thing to do.
Editorial: State dam inspections fall far behind acceptable pace
TCEQ has only seven inspectors to keep track of 7,603 dams.
The Victoria Advocate - Google News Archive Search
Dam inspections in Texas
Old U.S. dams become a multibillion-dollar threat | Homeland Security News Wire
The average age of America’s 80,000 dams is 51 years. More than 2,000 dams near population centers are in need of repair, according to statistics released this month by the Association of State Dam Safety Officials.
There was little state or Federal regulation, particularly of the little dams in small watersheds, until the 1970s, when five major dam failures took hundreds of lives and caused almost $1.5 billion in damage. The Carter administration began to put safeguards in place, but the inspections continue to be carried out at the state level.
The number of high-hazard dams has increased from less than 9,000 in 2001 to more than 10,000 now
http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL31556.pdf
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, President Bush signed new
Executive Orders relating to critical infrastructure protection.
--------The problem here is that Bush only wanted to “protect”, not maintain or rebuild.
Considering what he had to work with. Anything to plug a sinking ship.
Besides, those are exaggerations and you know it.
Breaking contract law? Too bad they don't break the ones Bush and the Republicans signed making us responsible for rebuilding Iraq. We could so use the money here. Thanks Republicans, you got us good.
Capping Private business pay? Your not serious. Where do you get this stuff? From a hat?
Retroactive tax increases? I don't even know what that means.
Retroactive law making? Too bad we didn't make invading other countries for fun against the law.
Deliberately inflating money supply to devalue dollar - 8 years of Republican fiscal policies already devalued the dollar.
Do Republicans take even the tiniest bit of responsibility for the mess they left the nation in? Even a "twinge"?