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Chris Murphy 🟧
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Mark it in your calendars folks - June 11, 2023 - the day Republicans officially ran out of any actual ideas
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@LeighWolf
This is such a perfect encapsulation of where the Democratic Party exists in American politics today.
A sitting dem senator finds our symbols and traditions, built on decades of sacrifice and bought with the blood of thousands of patriots across many wars, quaint and easily dismissed.
It’s insulting to any patriot, especially those that have served to defend our flag.
Hurricane barrier along Texas coast could protect residents while improving supply chain delays
A preliminary design is approved for a storm suppression system that would run along the Texas coast from Galveston to Corpus Christi, but it could ultimately impact the entire country.
The project is the largest civil works project ever taken on by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. Not only could it protect the lives of people on the Gulf Coast, it could also help eliminate supply-chain delays across the country by protecting two large ports during hurricanes.
“The idea and intent is to combine a series of gated structures – kind of what we consider gray infrastructure, you may think of it as concrete and water – with natural and nature-based solutions like beaches and dunes and wetlands, to basically improve resilience of the entire Texas coast,” Burkes-Copes said.
Despite the backing behind the project, one more obstacle stands in the way of the hurricane barrier or coastal spine project: matching federal funds.
“We have to have a local funding source to not only build the system, but to maintain it,” Brown said.
One funding option available is adding a tax, but officials must consider if Texas residents across the state would be okay with paying taxes for a barrier in Galveston.
What would it do to Marine life? Oil production? What powers does this give the Federal government?
I’m very skeptical of this, especially the cost and other impacts, especially with the Federal government involved.
If they’re worried about supply chain problems, there’s plenty of other places to look.