Liberals Scream"Spend More on Infrastructure..."

[candycorn]

Whenever you hear "cut spending to the bone" from the GOP...just know there are consequences.

What would be the consequences to cutting ........ the care and support of illegal immigrants, building mosques on foreign soil, supplying weapons to drug lords and terrorists, most of the foreign aid given to foreign governments, exploring the far reaches of the universe, stupid projects such as the fence along our southern border, no-bid government contracts, unnecessary military spending, subsidies to rich farmers and big oil, bribes paid to North Korea and Iran, unnecessary government travel, the ridiculous perks and benefits given to members of Congress, lavish White House vacations, studying the sex habits of cockroaches, looking for water on the surface of Mars, and giving tax refunds to dead people?

Well Sonny...

I see you're back to your gloom and doom mindset. I'll take the first and last.

When I worked in public health, we had a refugee program that provided medications to refugees that were anti-parasite, anti-fungal, and anti-bacterial. The thought was that if you are going to have these people in the community since we didn't build that "stupid fence", it was better to have them without tapeworms. Not sure how many lives we saved but I would put it in the hundreds.

And the tax refunds to dead people. When you hear about the GOP talking about "cutting spending to the bone", usually this means the guy who does such things as removing the dead from tax rolls is furloughed to avoid paying her/him a salary.

 

[BlackSand]

Explain how infrastructure spending can make 100 mph meet the 50 mph speed limit for the curve where the train derailed.

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[Dragonlady]

China does not have all our manufacturing jobs. We are making more stuff than ever before.

Technology obsoleted our manufacturing jobs, not China.

Besides, manufacturing is the trough of the smiley curve of production value addition. Design and distribution are where its at.

That's why the US is being tough about protecting intellectual property rights in the negotiations.

There simply is no money in making T-shirts and lava lamps.

Absolutely false. The US used to export more than imported, now it's the other way around. You're importing far more than you're exporting leading to a trade imbalance. China is the country with the trade $$$ these days.

Holding the IT means that US corporations make money off the goods China makes, but American workers do not. Manufacturing the source of a country's wealth and you've sold to China for cheap goods.

Dumb move.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Liberals are so quick to bathe in the blood of the dead to further their sick, Socialist agenda

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

In the wake of the Amtrak tragedy Democrats have been holding it up as an example of broken infrastructure and say we need to raise more taxes to invest into infrastructure like China does. Well perhaps if China did not have all of our manufacturing jobs we would have a local tax base that could pay for infrastructure and education. Only 14 Dem's bolted on Pacific trade bill that will lose more American jobs. Brilliant...just fucking brilliant.

China does not have all our manufacturing jobs. We are making more stuff than ever before.

Technology obsoleted our manufacturing jobs, not China.

Besides, manufacturing is the trough of the smiley curve of production value addition. Design and distribution are where its at.

That's why the US is being tough about protecting intellectual property rights in the negotiations.

There simply is no money in making T-shirts and lava lamps.

Yup, because no one makes physical products anymore. I mean everyone knows cars aren't made out of steel anymore, everyone is making them with silly putty now....derp?

 

[Rozman]

Closing in on $20 trillion in debt and I keep reading we just don't spend enough.

 

[OKTexas]

Whenever you hear "cut spending to the bone" from the GOP...just know there are consequences.

We subsidize amtrack to the tune of 1.5 billion+ a year to run routes that can't pay for themselves, why? Shouldn't they close unprofitable routes?

 

[g5000]

In the wake of the Amtrak tragedy Democrats have been holding it up as an example of broken infrastructure and say we need to raise more taxes to invest into infrastructure like China does. Well perhaps if China did not have all of our manufacturing jobs we would have a local tax base that could pay for infrastructure and education. Only 14 Dem's bolted on Pacific trade bill that will lose more American jobs. Brilliant...just fucking brilliant.

China does not have all our manufacturing jobs. We are making more stuff than ever before.

Technology obsoleted our manufacturing jobs, not China.

Besides, manufacturing is the trough of the smiley curve of production value addition. Design and distribution are where its at.

That's why the US is being tough about protecting intellectual property rights in the negotiations.

There simply is no money in making T-shirts and lava lamps.

Yup, because no one makes physical products anymore. I mean everyone knows cars aren't made out of steel anymore, everyone is making them with silly putty now....derp?

More and more stages of automotive assembly are done by robots. Derp.

 

[g5000]

The purchase of robots hit an all-time high in 2012 with 22,598 sold in North America, two-thirds of which were scooped up by automakers and auto parts manufacturers.

 

[g5000]

Over two hundred million trips are taken daily across deficient bridges in the nation’s 102 largest metropolitan regions. In total, one in nine of the nation’s bridges are rated as structurally deficient, while the average age of the nation’s 607,380 bridges is currently 42 years. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) estimates that to eliminate the nation’s bridge deficient backlog by 2028, we would need to invest $20.5 billion annually, while only $12.8 billion is being spent currently. The challenge for federal, state, and local governments is to increase bridge investments by $8 billion annually to address the identified $76 billion in needs for deficient bridges across the United States.

2013 Report Card for America s Infrastructure Bridges

 

[g5000]

Just How Fragile Are America s Bridges

First, there's structural deficiency, a designation that can be based on any number of factors. America is awash in structurally deficient bridges. The most famous example in recent memory was the old I-35W bridge in Minneapolis that spanned the Mississippi River. It collapsed in 2007, killing 13 and injuring 145. But the Minnesota bridge was just one of 75,000 such structurally deficient bridges in the country at that time, and that I-35W bridge had carried that designation for 17 years before its failure. It had been slated for replacement in 2020, but the sheer number of structurally deficient bridges (the U.S. has 66,749, as of last year) meant it was simply part of a staggering nationwide backlog.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

In the wake of the Amtrak tragedy Democrats have been holding it up as an example of broken infrastructure and say we need to raise more taxes to invest into infrastructure like China does. Well perhaps if China did not have all of our manufacturing jobs we would have a local tax base that could pay for infrastructure and education. Only 14 Dem's bolted on Pacific trade bill that will lose more American jobs. Brilliant...just fucking brilliant.

China does not have all our manufacturing jobs. We are making more stuff than ever before.

Technology obsoleted our manufacturing jobs, not China.

Besides, manufacturing is the trough of the smiley curve of production value addition. Design and distribution are where its at.

That's why the US is being tough about protecting intellectual property rights in the negotiations.

There simply is no money in making T-shirts and lava lamps.

Yup, because no one makes physical products anymore. I mean everyone knows cars aren't made out of steel anymore, everyone is making them with silly putty now....derp?

More and more stages of automotive assembly are done by robots. Derp.

You completely missed the point I see.

YOU WERE & ARE WRONG ABOUT THE JOBS

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Whenever you hear "cut spending to the bone" from the GOP...just know there are consequences.

Liberals call them consequences, we call them godsends. And no, I'm not talking about cutting spending for infrastructure, roads and highways. More like your welfare shit.

 

[candycorn]

Whenever you hear "cut spending to the bone" from the GOP...just know there are consequences.

We subsidize amtrack to the tune of 1.5 billion+ a year to run routes that can't pay for themselves, why? Shouldn't they close unprofitable routes?

The short answer is yes. I'm not sure about the nature of all of the routes. I think we should also get out of the business of sponsoring public radio and television, close most of our embassies over-seas and pay the congressmen and women part-time wages since they are not in session most of the year.

 

[Dragonlady]

The US should be subsidizing rail transportation, public radio and television, and closing embassies is just the worst idea of all of them.

You'd be further ahead to close overseas military bases than embassies. It would save more money. You want to cut the peacemakers and say nothing about the warriors. Dumb, dumb and dumber.

 

[NYcarbineer]

I spent none until GW Bush took office. GH Bush never invaded Iraq.

WTF does that post mean?

 

[Edgetho]

 

[Delta4Embassy]

In the wake of the Amtrak tragedy Democrats have been holding it up as an example of broken infrastructure and say we need to raise more taxes to invest into infrastructure like China does. Well perhaps if China did not have all of our manufacturing jobs we would have a local tax base that could pay for infrastructure and education. Only 14 Dem's bolted on Pacific trade bill that will lose more American jobs. Brilliant...just fucking brilliant.

Wasn't infrastructure related but operator-negligence.

When a Japanese farmer in the Fukushima vicinity learned some of his produce sold was radioactive, he felt so guilty (even though no one reported ill effects) that he hung himself commiting suicide.

This Amtrak operator felt so guilty he got a lawyer.

Thi sis the difference between the US and most the rest of the world. We reject personal responsibility. Others accept it.

By all rights, the Amtrak engineers should be charged with 7 counts of voluntary manslaughter (since he grossly exceeded the speed limit) and 200 or whatever it is counts of Assault in the 2nd or 3rd degree. Then when found guilty, which of course he is, put in prison for the rest of his life with no chance of parole.

His actions led to the deaths of 7 people. While I'd be fine with putting a bullet in his brain, our laws unfortunately don't work the way that they should.

 

[OKTexas]

Whenever you hear "cut spending to the bone" from the GOP...just know there are consequences.

We subsidize amtrack to the tune of 1.5 billion+ a year to run routes that can't pay for themselves, why? Shouldn't they close unprofitable routes?

The short answer is yes. I'm not sure about the nature of all of the routes. I think we should also get out of the business of sponsoring public radio and television, close most of our embassies over-seas and pay the congressmen and women part-time wages since they are not in session most of the year.

I agree mostly, I don't know about your congressman but mine is very busy doing his job when he's in TX. I have a good friend on his staff and I know how busy he keeps them, he does town halls, meets with business leaders, students and much more. I think he earns his money.

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Bureaucrats arent very good at driving trains, fixing things, maintaining a budget, or running things effeciently.

But theyre great at demanding more taxpayer funding.........