Posted on 03/28/2024 8:20:42 PM PDT by bitt
The recent bridge collapse in Baltimore is an absolute nightmare, and our thoughts are with the victims and their families during this incredibly tough time. Beyond the heart-wrenching loss and the basic “whys” everyone’s dealing with, there’s one crucial question not many are asking: Can America rebuild the bridge?
Sure, it might seem odd to wonder about our capability to build a bridge in 2024, but sadly, it’s a valid concern these days. When you consider how our nation is faltering under inept globalist rule, dragged down by dangerous DEI agendas that place “charity” over excellence, and watching the decimation of hardworking middle-class America, the question isn’t just rhetorical—it’s a stark reflection of our abysmal current reality.
Revolver has been calling attention to this decline in American society for quite some time, starting from when Biden first introduced his “infrastructure bill.” Fast forward three years, and here we are: bridges collapsing, roads deteriorating, and let’s not even dive into the chaos unfolding in our skies or the sorry state of our airports. Meanwhile, as China makes serious strides forward, it feels like we’re just spinning our wheels, stuck in neutral. It’s a stark contrast that highlights where our priorities have been misplaced and the need for a serious reevaluation of how we invest in our nation’s future.
Revolver:
Infrastructure has been a popular cause on the right since Donald Trump’s presidential run began six years ago, and for good reason. If President Trump had started his first term with a massive bipartisan infrastructure project that included the Wall, rather than following GOP hack Paul Ryan’s tax cut agenda, the country would almost certainly be better off. Spending money to develop America and improve the lives of citizens is a much better use of the country’s wealth than fighting forever wars in the Hindu Kush or simply keeping half the country on the dole in one form or another.
But there needs to be a degree of realism as well: In the country America has become, it’s never as simple as just spending money on infrastructure instead of warfare and welfare. Without truly ambitious, far-reaching reforms, and a competent non-corrupt leadership class to implement them, infrastructure is either a spoils system for special interest clients, or simply an expensive effort to maintain a crumbling status quo.
This is the real tragedy of the infrastructure bill. It’s not just about waste, excessive expense, incompetence, or special interest grift, though all that is there and it is impossible to imagine a major bill without these corruptions. It’s also, at a deeper level, about the disappearance of greatness from our national spirit. Fifty-two years ago, the United States sent men to the moon. Today, America is no longer capable of a moon-landing level national project — in fact, America may literally be incapable of an actual moon landing, too. Regardless, this infrastructure bill aspires to nothing of the sort.
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That bridge will never be rebuilt period
That is not an unreasonable question, considering how far the national skill set has fallen.
All part of de-industrializing America.
6 to 8 years from now, the bridge will remain unfinished, the budget will have been busted by huge costs overruns, shoddy (Chinese?) materials will be discovered, funds will be unaccounted for, calls for investigations will arise, fingers will be pointed, there will be demands for firings of upper level management, lawsuits will be lodged against the entities involved...
Welcome to the New America.
While dims are in charge, the bridge will be rebuilt with Chinese steel and mexican labor.
Then it will fall down again.
Our military is building piers for Gaza. Where there is a will …..
A major bridge taken out. Food processing sites going up in flames. Airplanes developing serious physical structure issues. Welcome to the leftists’ wet dream, one that we will not be able to vote our way out of.
I’ve been saying to myself a long time BEFORE reading this article that most likely what I will see next is the State of Maryland, run by blacks and democrats, will put a black female transgender person in CHARGE of this bridge reconstruction and it will take on an odor and timeframe rather similar, if not identical, to the bullet train the Californian morons have wasted billions on and are nowhere near complete building it.
So, most likely, this article is spot on.
As long as no Whiteys are involved, absolutely.
The Ukrainians took out the Kerch Bridge and the Russians had it fixed in several months in the middle of a war. The Russians are now building a new rail line along the coast of their occupied territory in the Donbas.
I think Zelensky is just waiting for them to finish it, before he starts taking it out piece by piece with moving trains.
Can America rebuild the bridge?
Yes
“That bridge will never be rebuilt period”
The bridge will be rebuild with a better design and engineering than when it was constructed.
6-& years from now the bridge won’t be tall enough because the sea water will rise due to the meting ice cap.
When I was in my 20s, manufacturing plants were everywhere. However, in the 90s, they were being phased out and this was celebrated by the media. We are in the information age and we are an information society, Tom Brokaw would parrot.
I know longer recognize America without massive small town manufacturing.
This has been devastating.
In Tacoma, WA, the I-5 bridge over the Puyallup River took 25 years to complete.
Just sayin’.
Scrap to China....
As soon as he got into the White House, Biden ordered an immediate stop to the building of the Wall. The parts were quickly sold for pennies on the dollar.
When Dems or news media Leftists try to blame Trum and say Biden likes having the Wall, show them this article:
https://nypost.com/2023/08/19/biden-sells-border-wall-parts-to-thwart-gop-push-to-use-them
Up to $300 million worth of taxpayer-funded wall components have been left to rust since Biden came to office, Republicans have said.
“Leaving the border open to terrorists while selling border security materials at a loss is Bidenomics in a nutshell,” said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a co-sponsor.
“The pennies made from selling the border wall will not be enough to pay the families who suffer from a criminal act committed by someone who crossed our open borders during the Biden administration,” railed Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford.
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