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Obama: US infrastructure ‘embarrassing’
The Hill ^ | December 3, 2014 | Justin Sink

Posted on 12/04/2014 7:40:35 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: PGR88

It does make sense. We built a lot of our stuff in the 1950’s so of course things are going to wear out. This was bound to happen at some time. Now seems to be that time.


61 posted on 12/04/2014 8:39:29 AM PST by napscoordinator (President Walker is our future President! Ted Cruz is the Senate Majority Leader in the future!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
I’ll bet the Chinese don’t have to wait years for NPDES permits before a project is approved.

In china, it depends on which level of government wants the project. Provincial or higher, the Party and Government leaders simply call in everyone involved and tell them how its going to be.

62 posted on 12/04/2014 8:39:42 AM PST by PGR88
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just think what that 500M that went to Solyndra could have done for our “decaying infrastructure”!


63 posted on 12/04/2014 8:39:48 AM PST by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: Signalman
I thought this was taken care of in his first term.

Bears repeating...

I thought this was taken care of in his first term.

He vowed --- in his mau mau undertaker voice...

64 posted on 12/04/2014 8:39:51 AM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No problem the five million new illegals will mend the infrastructure like the fifteen million already here.


65 posted on 12/04/2014 8:40:27 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So what happened to the $790 bln that was supposed to be spent on "shovel ready projects", huh 0'Dumbass?

"I guess those projects weren't quite so shovel ready...ha ha"

What a lying sack of crap he is, and what ignoramuses our population of low information progressive voters is.

66 posted on 12/04/2014 8:40:41 AM PST by YankeeReb (Pants up!!! Don't Loot!!!)
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To: treetopsandroofs
We’ve been hearing that’s already a done deal in exchange for “Speaker” Boehner’s campaign for executive amnesty.

That would be the second worse political deal in U.S. history for the net taxpayer.)

NOTHING can ever replace Obamacare as #1.

Reagans's 1986 immigration 'deal' with the lying SOB democratic Congress would be a close 3rd...

67 posted on 12/04/2014 8:53:06 AM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: publius911

Can’t argue with that.

Unfortunately, half of American voters still froth with hatred at anyone who disagrees that their god Hussein can never do anything wrong.


68 posted on 12/04/2014 9:07:52 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep, if he did not pocket the stimulus it would be ok..


69 posted on 12/04/2014 9:19:31 AM PST by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Ya, Porkulus was supposedly devoted to infrastructure improvements.

Bingo. Yet how quickly people forget.

70 posted on 12/04/2014 9:23:32 AM PST by randita (Obama entrusted the transformation of the best healthcare system in the world to a scam artist.)
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To: defconw

The streets in our city are awful, but it’s because the idiots in charge are obsessed with so-called economic development and are wasting so much on Chamber of Commerce fantasies like downtown rejuvenation and more and more parks. They even want to spend money on building dams on the river to promote more river development. Meanwhile we have potholes that could swallow a VW Beetle and city employees haven’t even had a cost of living raise in 10 years.


71 posted on 12/04/2014 9:25:17 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: all the best

Yep. What have they done with all the money from gas taxes over the decades? They’ve blown it on themselves and their cronies, buying votes, etc. Government ruins everything it touches.


72 posted on 12/04/2014 9:26:42 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s embarrassing is that the US outsourced the Presidency and still settled for a low IQ anti American.


73 posted on 12/04/2014 9:28:37 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That man is an embarrassment


74 posted on 12/04/2014 9:39:09 AM PST by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: PieterCasparzen
I dunno...I travel a bit internationally. It's kinda depressing seeing our airports compared to other countries. In fact, I typically find it pretty depressing just flying back into the United States anymore. With the big screens telling me to see something, say something, the pat downs, the creepers manning the check points---

Even the Moscow airport makes most of ours look sad.

Ofcourse, the over sized human debris shuffling around in pajamas doesn't help.

75 posted on 12/04/2014 9:42:26 AM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any mention of the quality of that construction in China? You know, where the buildings have even literally fallen over into each other?

This guy is such an ass. HE is the real embarrassment.


76 posted on 12/04/2014 9:42:33 AM PST by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cut 5% from every entitlement check sent out until the problems are solved,,,


77 posted on 12/04/2014 9:47:32 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: Pining_4_TX

I understand the last state I lived in was more interested in bike trails then roads, but even at that for the most part the roads were not so bad.


78 posted on 12/04/2014 9:49:39 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here's one big piece of Chinese infrastructure I'd like to see Obama copy
79 posted on 12/04/2014 10:57:34 AM PST by edzo4 (You call us the 'Party Of No', I call us the resistance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I arrived here in the Dallas area in 2006 after surviving Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi. It has been non-stop highway and building construction here for years and years and years.

I arrived in Dallas in the 80s to go to school at SMU. There was a turnpike between Dallas and Fort Worth that had just ceased collecting tolls, 75 was a 2-lane death trap/parking lot from 635 to downtown, and the North Dallas Tollway barely made it to North Dallas. I can still remember seeing the "master plan" for I75 and the 635 interchange as a model in Northpark Mall, and thinking to myself that it would never get finished.

You are absolutely right, the building is nonstop. Then again growth demands it, especially in the North. We are getting invaded by blue state refugees, I meet them every day in my work. It wasn't that long ago 121 was a two lane highway surrounded by farms from McKinney to Lewisville. Now that is a major tollway surrounded by development. Its crazy how fast things are changing. Then again, we have a robust economy that demands it, and we can afford it.

As far as Obama's demands, I think the infrastructure Obama imagines includes turtle tunnels, wind farms, and large chunks of cash laundered through the unions into the hands of democrat candidates. He is clueless, and the least qualified man in America when it comes to infrastructure needs of this nation.

80 posted on 12/04/2014 11:00:14 AM PST by Kandy Atz ("Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want for bread.")
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