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To: Rashputin
"America's crumbling infrastructure" is a fraud on a scale exceeded only by Mann-made global warming. It is a glaring attempt to purloin large sums of money from the be-leaguered taxpayer.

Other than the Minneapolis bridge incident(caused by faulty engineering, no doubt perpetrated by an ASCE member), what infrastructure has "crumbled" lately? When a water main blows, we fix it. When a road needs repair, we repair it. When a grid shorts out, we start it up again.

It's called "maintenance" and is an ongoing cost of doing business in any business with capital investment. "Preventive maintenance" is better, but you can blame corrupt politicians for shortcomings there.

6 posted on 10/21/2010 5:37:03 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard
"Preventive maintenance" is better, but you can blame corrupt politicians for shortcomings there.

Politicians don't get credit for "preventive maintenance" or "repairs". That's how come we get new bridges when repairing the old one would work just fine.

No ceremonial shovels for maintenance work, no ribbons to cut for repairs...

7 posted on 10/21/2010 5:42:07 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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