America's infrastructure: Beams disintegrating under bridges

[ScienceRocks]

America's infrastructure: Beams disintegrating under bridges
By Rene Marsh, David Gracey and Ted Severson, CNN

Updated 8:32 PM ET, Wed May 25, 2016

America's crumbling infrastructure - CNNPolitics.com

Washington (CNN)Nearly 40 million Americans will kick off one of the busiest travel seasons in history this Memorial Day weekend, jarred by potholes on America's roads, crossing her aging bridges, riding her antiquated railways and taking off from airports that draw international scorn.


Long a source of national pride, America's infrastructure is in critical need of repair, but federal government spending on the issue has gone down 9% in the past decade. As former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood says, "We're like a third-world country when it comes to infrastructure."

Anyone that believes we should cut a single cent out of infrastructure funding really does want to live within a third world shithole. If anything it is time to put more money into our infrastructure as even Trump has side and work to remain a world power.

Of course, that is common sense.

 

[LogikAndReazon]

A new WPA is surely needed.....lol

 

[leftwinger]

They have plenty of funding. Stop waste, close down useless depts. Consolidate, eliminate, reduce, cut. Sell assets, use those dollarsl we give no more to out of control incompetence.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

If only we had an $800 billion stimulus plan for shovel ready projects......

 

[Weatherman2020]

America's infrastructure: Beams disintegrating under bridges
By Rene Marsh, David Gracey and Ted Severson, CNN

Updated 8:32 PM ET, Wed May 25, 2016

America's crumbling infrastructure - CNNPolitics.com

Washington (CNN)Nearly 40 million Americans will kick off one of the busiest travel seasons in history this Memorial Day weekend, jarred by potholes on America's roads, crossing her aging bridges, riding her antiquated railways and taking off from airports that draw international scorn.


Long a source of national pride, America's infrastructure is in critical need of repair, but federal government spending on the issue has gone down 9% in the past decade. As former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood says, "We're like a third-world country when it comes to infrastructure."

Anyone that believes we should cut a single cent out of infrastructure funding really does want to live within a third world shithole. If anything it is time to put more money into our infrastructure as even Trump has side and work to remain a world power.

Of course, that is common sense.

Lets spend a trillion on shovel ready infrastructure.
Oh wait, we did.

 

[Rozman]

The ones that always push for spending on Infrastructure,science,R&D never mention that we already do....
I say we cut funding for all these programs until we are sure that the money is spent correctly.

 

[whitehall]

Wait a minute, let me think. Who the hell was president for the last 7+ years. Didn't "Cash for Clunkers" fix everything or were we satisfied to "blame Bush?

 

[Weatherman2020]

The ones that always push for spending on Infrastructure,science,R&D never mention that we already do....
I say we cut funding for all these programs until we are sure that the money is spent correctly.

Three of the biggest infrastructure projects in SoCal were private ventures - The Impossible Railroad, Ortega Highway, and the Grapevine Highway. All completed in 10% the time the government takes today.

 

[JimBowie1958]

While there is need for infrastructure to be fixed across the nation, why hasnt it been done already?

Answer that and you will find the explanation for the collapse of the professional political class.

 

[Indeependent]

Nassau County is spending a fortune on roads and removing trees over electric wires.

 

[The Great Goose]

Too much generation of currency, not enough production.

 

[The Great Goose]

While there is need for infrastructure to be fixed across the nation, why hasnt it been done already?

Answer that and you will find the explanation for the collapse of the professional political class.

Exactly. No guts or integrity in the leaders who are meant to protect our countries from being stripped.

We need to bring back nationalisation and shout down anyone who calls it "socialism".

 

[Rozman]

Nassau County is spending a fortune on roads and removing trees over electric wires.

And Nassau County is one of the highest taxed areas maybe in the country....
And if the taxes are used to better the lives of the community I don't think anyone would have an issue with that....

But to constantly cry over and over that we don't spend enough
and never question the governments handling of the spending makes me crazy....

Typical lefties....
Want to fix a problem throw money at it.
How much taxes do we need heaped on us before the Libs are satisfied??

 

[Indeependent]

Nassau County is spending a fortune on roads and removing trees over electric wires.

And Nassau County is one of the highest taxed areas maybe in the country....
And if the taxes are used to better the lives of the community I don't think anyone would have an issue with that....

But to constantly cry over and over that we don't spend enough
and never question the governments handling of the spending makes me crazy....

Typical lefties....
Want to fix a problem throw money at it.
How much taxes do we need heaped on us before the Libs are satisfied??

Over 80% of our General Taxes (Property Taxes) go to the schools.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Calif High Speed Rail is $44 billion over budget (so far), 4 years behind schedule (so far) and has not even layed a rail yet or bought 5% of the property required.

 

[The Great Goose]

Nassau County is spending a fortune on roads and removing trees over electric wires.

And Nassau County is one of the highest taxed areas maybe in the country....
And if the taxes are used to better the lives of the community I don't think anyone would have an issue with that....

But to constantly cry over and over that we don't spend enough
and never question the governments handling of the spending makes me crazy....

Typical lefties....
Want to fix a problem throw money at it.
How much taxes do we need heaped on us before the Libs are satisfied??

Over 80% of our General Taxes (Property Taxes) go to the schools.

So you are proposing that children are parasites?

 

[MisterBeale]

America's infrastructure: Beams disintegrating under bridges
By Rene Marsh, David Gracey and Ted Severson, CNN

Updated 8:32 PM ET, Wed May 25, 2016

America's crumbling infrastructure - CNNPolitics.com

Washington (CNN)Nearly 40 million Americans will kick off one of the busiest travel seasons in history this Memorial Day weekend, jarred by potholes on America's roads, crossing her aging bridges, riding her antiquated railways and taking off from airports that draw international scorn.


Long a source of national pride, America's infrastructure is in critical need of repair, but federal government spending on the issue has gone down 9% in the past decade. As former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood says, "We're like a third-world country when it comes to infrastructure."

Anyone that believes we should cut a single cent out of infrastructure funding really does want to live within a third world shithole. If anything it is time to put more money into our infrastructure as even Trump has side and work to remain a world power.

Of course, that is common sense.

 

[Indeependent]

Nassau County is spending a fortune on roads and removing trees over electric wires.

And Nassau County is one of the highest taxed areas maybe in the country....
And if the taxes are used to better the lives of the community I don't think anyone would have an issue with that....

But to constantly cry over and over that we don't spend enough
and never question the governments handling of the spending makes me crazy....

Typical lefties....
Want to fix a problem throw money at it.
How much taxes do we need heaped on us before the Libs are satisfied??

Over 80% of our General Taxes (Property Taxes) go to the schools.

So you are proposing that children are parasites?

I'm proposing that a 24 year old with a Master's in English or History shouldn't be paid 95K base plus benefits.
There's no need for a 9 million dollar music room.
There's no need for 75% of a School District's property to be non-Academic.
There no need to pay millions of dollars annually for daily busing for sports.

So yeah, there's a TON of non-Academic related spending going on.
And best of all, when a Budget is voted down, the School District simply has a revote every month until it passes.

So now that we know that Nassau County's General Tax bucket is MUCH smaller that that of Nassau County's School Budgets, we can appreciate how far NC goes to maintain it's infrastructure.

Any other questions?

 

[The Great Goose]

Nassau County is spending a fortune on roads and removing trees over electric wires.

And Nassau County is one of the highest taxed areas maybe in the country....
And if the taxes are used to better the lives of the community I don't think anyone would have an issue with that....

But to constantly cry over and over that we don't spend enough
and never question the governments handling of the spending makes me crazy....

Typical lefties....
Want to fix a problem throw money at it.
How much taxes do we need heaped on us before the Libs are satisfied??

Over 80% of our General Taxes (Property Taxes) go to the schools.

So you are proposing that children are parasites?

I'm proposing that a 24 year old with a Master's in English or History shouldn't be paid 95K base plus benefits.
There's no need for a 9 million dollar music room.
There's no need for 75% of a School District's property to be non-Academic.
There no need to pay millions of dollars annually for daily busing for sports.

So yeah, there's a TON of non-Academic related spending going on.
And best of all, when a Budget is voted down, the School District simply has a revote every month until it passes.

So now that we know that Nassau County's General Tax bucket is MUCH smaller that that of Nassau County's School Budgets, we can appreciate how far NC goes to maintain it's infrastructure.

Any other questions?

No. I loathe scholarship and believe it is designed to hold people back from successful mammal life.

You have convinced me.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

The last big property tax increase for the school system in the county I live in was supposed to be "For The Children".

In actuality the first thing that happened when it was passed was the educational professionals demanding 10-15% pay increases and receiving said pay raises with no hesitation from the school board.

Getting those pay raises approved first seems to be the common on most projects that involve government funding from what I've seen.

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