Posted on 08/07/2007 4:59:33 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
government solutions are always so easy, see?
This bridge would not have collapsed is George Bush didn’t hate every black person in America!!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Toss every NEA member out, decertify the NEA as a bargaining entity, stop indoctrinating the kids with social viewpoints, the homosexual agenda, and the supreme stupidity of “diversity is strength” nonsense and they would be.
The last thing in the world we want to do is throw more money down the rathole that the American educational system has become.
and that is how we demonstrate that their education is truly important. and that you are truly ignorant.
The bridge was declared unsafe in 1990 For the next 17 years locals spent over one billion in federal aid on the Hiawatha Pathway", a light rail system in the Minneapolis area, instead of repairing the bridge.
So whose fault is this really.
Where did N.O. spend its funds that should have gone to the levees? Lack of planning and being prepared should lay at the feet of the N.O. government and Governor Blanco specifically.
I’m not crossing that bridge when I come to it!
Aren’t there a lot of states that are running surpluses?
If that’s the case, why raise taxes when there’s dough in many state coffers that could be used to repair bridges?
I never knew that President Bush hated bridges. Who knew?
Too late. When you can graduate from college work 20 years as a teacher, retire at 43 or 45 and collect a large percentage of your pay with benefits, how can you STOP the money from going down the proverbial rathole?
Again, too late.
liberal taboo: less taxes = more revenue
For decades the corrupt NYC pols have had to choose between maintaining infrastructure or buying votes from the welfare extortionists and municipal union thugs.
Guess which way they chose.
You’re right Jesse. We don’t pay enough taxes. Just ask any NYer who actually works for a living.
As my reputation literally crumbles beneath my feet,
Fixed it.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
When I was a kid, way back in the late 50's and early 60's, the concrete was falling off nearly all of them. In fact Jesse when we needed 'chalk' we'd do down to long RR Viaduct at 39th & Western and use up the concrete chips that were always laying on the sidewalk.
(However they played heck on bike tires. When going to McKinley Park we had to zig-zag around the big pieces)
You MUST be from Chicago. I have never heard the “jag..” reference anywhere else.
The one that got me was the railroad bridge on 35th just west of the ballpark; that’s looked like it’s been ready to come down for about 40 years.
Doesn’t Jesse have a couple payments to former secretaries to make?
However, most infrastructure is a state or local issue, not a federal one.
Sewers and water treatment are local issues, not federal.
The levees in New Orleans are a state and local issue.
The army corp of engineers is a federal resource that helps local and state governments with such issues, but the responsibility to build and maintain that infrastructure falls upon the state and local governments.
During the end of Bush Senior's term and through most of Clinton's two terms the US experienced a huge economic expansion. State and local governments were swimming in tax dollars. Did those states take those windfalls and invest in necessary infrastructure? They did invest some. However they also vastly expanded services and expanded parks and other resources that required upkeep. Instead of investing those tax dollars in rebuilding and maintaining critical infrastructure, they gave themselves more projects to maintain, which they are unable to support during the slower but steady growth we are experiencing now.
Our economy is strong, but our governments are going bankrupt simply due to grossly incompetent planning. This is of course leading to the usual blame game where incompetent politicians all try and shift the blame elsewhere, and the liberal socialists and communists use it as an opportunity to say that the problem would be solved by a stronger federal government.
In truth, bad local public policies must be allowed to fail so that people will learn. Otherwise problems will get increasingly worse and there will be no accountability at local levels, and the weight of all those bad policies will strangle us at the federal level.
This is one of the main reasons big, socialist government is doomed to failure.
Jesse and his ilk, don't offer solutions, they just try and shift blame. They have no solutions to real problems. The problem they are trying to solve is how to gain more power over the people, not solve the people's problems. If problems actually got solved, they would lose their influence, because they get their influence by blaming others.
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