I saw someone on the news suggest that maybe the recent heat had weakened the bridge and precipitated the collapse. So now I’m waiting now for someone to blame the collapse on global warming.
And here I thought the problem was not enough pork.
Our local news teams, in voluntary cooperation with our local government employees, are going out of their way to emphasize that our local bridges are 1) safe 2) get inspected regularly 3) notwithstanding the previous statements, they would like to point out that infrastructure does need expensive maintenance, and finally, 4) Somehow, the federal government needs to do more to make sure local governments have enough pork funds to keep up on repairs and build new structures.
I don’t want to hear a damn word out of any of them about upgrading the infrastructure. Those bastards used to tax me 3 new different ways for money to upgrade the infrastructure and every other year those tax rates went up on the entire industry.
Yet at one point the fund had generated a surplus of $138 billion (that’s right, with a b). almost none of which was spent on the infrastructure, but was taken for other pork projects. It didn’t matter who was in the White House either. When it started Clinton was president. It still goes on.
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:18 am
See, and here I was ready to blame global warming. . .
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:44 am
Give it a couple months and it will be Fred Thompson’s fault.
August 3rd, 2007 at 10:10 am
I saw someone on the news suggest that maybe the recent heat had weakened the bridge and precipitated the collapse. So now I’m waiting now for someone to blame the collapse on global warming.
August 3rd, 2007 at 10:26 am
And here I thought the problem was not enough pork.
Our local news teams, in voluntary cooperation with our local government employees, are going out of their way to emphasize that our local bridges are 1) safe 2) get inspected regularly 3) notwithstanding the previous statements, they would like to point out that infrastructure does need expensive maintenance, and finally, 4) Somehow, the federal government needs to do more to make sure local governments have enough
porkfunds to keep up on repairs and build new structures.August 3rd, 2007 at 11:12 am
Oh, but I have not been over to whatreallyhappened.com yet, so who knows?
August 3rd, 2007 at 12:13 pm
No No NO, it was the Military
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1026.htm
August 3rd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
I don’t want to hear a damn word out of any of them about upgrading the infrastructure. Those bastards used to tax me 3 new different ways for money to upgrade the infrastructure and every other year those tax rates went up on the entire industry.
Yet at one point the fund had generated a surplus of $138 billion (that’s right, with a b). almost none of which was spent on the infrastructure, but was taken for other pork projects. It didn’t matter who was in the White House either. When it started Clinton was president. It still goes on.
August 3rd, 2007 at 1:35 pm
The favorite way to balance the budget here in Maryland is to go raid the Transportation Trust Fund.
Yes, that’s right, they call it a Trust Fund, and then they loot it to pay for everything else government just has to provide for everyone.
Aren’t the sky-fscking-high gasoline taxes suppose to be earmarked for, you know, infrastructure?
But why isn’t the Fed-Gov doing more?