Trump authorized FEMA funding, which is the right thing do do (don’t play politics with disasters) but it should come with strings attached- some accounting for the last money and PEOPLE GETTING FIRED for not fixing this problem before.
Of course, Folsom Dam is in Blue California, and Oroville is in Red California. . .
but not to the Oroville Dam>>>>>>>>
Was the dam in a Red constituency? Or was it administered by green hippies, Californicatia style? Imagine a huge earthquake?
I seem to recall that stimulus money paying for a lot of signs touting the money for infrastructure improvements crediting the Obama administration, without a lot of actual improvements evident.
I can’t help but wonder how much officially sactioned looting is taking place in the evacuation zone. It appears to be the kind of opportunity that gave Soros his financial start.
The major flaw with infrastructure projects, and with the entire concept of central planning and decision by a technocratic elite is that those decisions are based on scientific facts and logic.
In cases after case we see that those infrastructure decisions are based on emotion and sentiment. They are based on political rewards and punishments. They are based on everything non-scientific.
Amtrak is the prime example. If technocrat central planning actually existed, the technocrats would say that heavy cargo belongs on rail, not on the highways. And that many highway buses, vans and cars going to decentralized hubs rather than a single regional hub makes a lot more sense for movement of people.
But the central planners are in love with Thomas The Tank Engine, and Percy and Mister Rogers Trolley. They are in love with the Orient Express. They are sentimental, not technocratic.
The same is true of the EPA. The same is true of Healthcare. No competent technocrat would impose the HHS/CMS rules and regulations Slavitt imposed on us.
Misapplication of federal infrastructure funds? Yet another 0bamascandal!
It was only a money laundering scheme for the DNC.
It's not like there isn't precedent.
There was a reason why Folsom Dam got the money—it was part of the long-planned auxiliary spillway project, mostly because by the time the water level reached the main spillway level at the dam, it was already dangerously high and would require massive water releases that could raise the American River level way too high, as we found out the hard way in 1986 and 1997. The new spillway would allow water releases when the Folsom Lake level was way lower, protecting the structural integrity of the dam.
Oopps, I reckun MoonBeam’s vision got obscured by the HSRailjob in Progre$$ whooooshing by his office door and scattering all his memoirs into the air due to climate change.
The climate change is due to Dems knowing better than anyone else how to set priorities and rank crisis points requiring immediate attention and delaying frivolous items for later.. only to doing the stupid thing everytime and let things fall to crap .. and then blame the other party.