Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: rlmorel

The greatest engineering achievements of the 20th Century were the Panama Canal, the Manhattan Project and Project Apollo. We couldn’t do any of those today.


9 posted on 10/10/2019 5:43:24 AM PDT by henkster
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]


To: henkster
I know. It is sobering. It took almost 25 years to build a silly bike path near where I live.

It is depressing, but this five minute PragerU video:

Why Can't America Fill a Pothole?

It is infuriating, discouraging, and depressing. But the short instructional video is, I believe, spot on.

25 posted on 10/10/2019 6:21:09 AM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ]

To: henkster

One exception:

Threaten to move your pro sports franchise out of town, and that new stadium will get built faster than you can say “property tax increase”.


27 posted on 10/10/2019 6:22:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson