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Xoe BuyDUNG visits the 'burgh on the very same morning that a major bridge "just happened" to collapse.
And now all the inspection data has been scrubbed from the web site.
Sounds like a job for the DHS Pravda.
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I dealt with them a ton doing electrical distribution design.
Absolutely painful, but better than SEPTA and Amtrak.
Every President promises billions in infrastructure money and every time the money falls down a union black hole, and nothing gets fixed.
PennDOT told the Post Gazette that the notes could be misinterpreted and claimed they could pose a security risk by potential saboteurs.
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Uncovering bureaucratic incompetence and malfeasance is now a security risk.
When corrupted PennDOT officials are tried and convicted, the sentence should include being flogged in public.
Gee - what we need is an infrastructure package to take care of all these failing structures! Why don’t we throw more money at it?
So what happened to all that casino money we were promised that would fix such things?
What was the rating on the bridge that collapsed this winter?
Are they hiding it to reward politically connected contractors unneeded construction contracts?
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You know what I am talking about if you have driven the roads in PA. You'll see one guy working and three or four just standing their. If a bridge is being worked on, they sit on the side of bridge.
When you have PennDOT employees sitting/standing around when they should be working you also have supervisors that don't give a damn. In turn, the lazy asses in Harrisburg that do even less. The only thing they care about are their next wage increase, benefits and their pensions.
Taxpayers and everyone who fills his gas that in Pennsylvania pays for this laziness. Pennsylvania has the 2nd highest gas tax in America. It was raised to fix our crumbling infrastructure. That infrastructure has been crumbling for decades, but we keep pumping more money to make the problem worse.
Here are concrete things that need to be done to wright the course:
1.) Eliminate all public sector unions. Nullify their contracts.
2.) Start firing lazy asses. Those bridge sitters get one chance to sit then they are fired.
3.) Cut PennDOT management/supervisor positions and their support staffs by 75%. Make the other 25% actually work.
4.) Narrow the scope of where tax dollars are spent. No more funding for SEPTA, regional light rail and buses. Make riders pay their way.
5.) Cut the green energy bullshit by 100% and build/maintain roads and bridges. Narrow the focus to something limited and finite, then work on those few things and do them right.
6.) Eliminate and stop buying all that electronic signage. We don't need that in the middle of nowhere, and all those city folks got along in the past without it, they can do it again.
7.) Eliminate the Turnpike Commission. The government function is build and maintain roads. We do not need a corrupt Turnpike Commission doing the same damn thing as PennDOT.
8.) Measure progress. If roads and bridges are getting better, then PennDOT workers get raises, but NEVER more than what the private sector employees get. If roads and bridges are getting worse, then PennDOT employees get demotions and their pay gets cut.
Government should never be a career. Government is public service. It should be short-term employment with EVERY government employee working in the private sector before they work for government and after they work for government. You can't learn a work ethic and provide value to tax dollars by never had seen how real work is done in the private sector.