Collapsed US bridge was rated "deficient" (2nd Roundup)
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Wonder how many bridges we've paid for in Iraq so far. End the stupid 'Bush/Cheney' War! Spend some of our tax money on US!
Maybe the over use of cars, the lack of sufficient funds due to the pointless war in Iraq and the oversized proportions of the majority of Americans has more far reaching consequences than first imagined.?
Yess, this is th President...
Govnah, I saw it on th TV...a tragedah suh!
What? Me?
Guvnah, when ah wuz Guvnah of Texass, I seem t remembah I was in chahge of pubic safety on bridges. Nevah had one fall, not a one o thim, boyh, not even th one's going t Mexico, n matta hoow much we wanted em to!
Ah also see heah whire we told ya th damn thing wuz a risk...did ya think we wuz kiddin? What'd ya doo boyh? Ya jus fergit? Ya put th funds inta health care or sumpin?
S ya git back t me and I'll hep ya all I cin, git ya sum o those haway funds y fergot t git on ya oown, OK boyh?
Yoou sound busy o thire. I'll call latah. See ya now.
No doubt!
...mean to you?
Does it mean you have until 2020 to repair it?
Does it mean GWB somehow failed?
I don't think so.
It means they were warned back in the Clinton era.
It means they ignored it.
Now folks are dead.
GWB is not to blame. (is he you worthless libnazis?)
Just like Katrina.(you worthless libnazis)
What a tragedy. It's like communicable disease: The program to eradicate it is usually defeated before the disease is defeated.
A 2005 survey states that 25 percent of civil engineering structures are deficient in the USA,including levees,dams,schoolbuildings and bridges.
Already the Katryna disaster brought to attention the sorry state of the levees .Those were inspected in the aftermeth by dutch engineers and found to be of cheap unefficient design,due to collapse during major bad weather .Complaints had already emanated from the concerned departments that the Bush cutbacks on the budget were dangerous .No attention was given to it .Even now when the budget for 2008 is being displayed it is noticed that the budget for education and health care is again reduced and military spending is raised with 10 percent .Yet the moron SP4 still is tryin to lay the blame with your previous administration.Yet it is Bush and Chenay that have reduced your federal budgets for maintenance in order to divert more money into the war in Iraq .Does this guy even know that 20 percent of your bridges are structurally deficient ?
What Comrade Tonny doesn't tell you is that monies are more than available for this kind of work, but the inverted priorities and corrupt state of civil construction in the united states makes getting new ones almost impossible. New Orleans is the gold standard, which is why Florida can manage Hurricanes and they cannot.
States, Tonny, not the Federal government, are responsible for ramrodding the infrastructure replacement process. This means that the corrupt big city and state apparatuchicks ignore this infrastructure daily.
In my state, the libnazi governor waxes on and on about clean energy (i.e. he exports it to a state where they make dirty power and then imports it to make him look good to his sychophantic constituants) as coast range roads and bridges fail repeatedly. We have spent 5 to 8 billion dollars on a failed libnazi light rail system and our roads would even be worse if Republican Gordon Smith had not put his foot down on matching funds for the rest of Oregon.
Examples? Highway 26 has NEVER been without orange pylons in the 28 years I've lived here. Hell they ought to construct permenant shops for the construction! A tunnel collapsed killing a man inside. The state KNEW it was suspect.
No Tonny, the Interstate sytem relies on the states to make it happen, and now that Congress is controlled by the liberals, let's see how efficent THEY are. Hopefully better than the libnazi running my state.
Tonny, not the bridge. America has known about this forever, but it's true the state is responsible. The feds told them about this 10 years ago, and countless other bridges. The buck stops at the statehouse, not the White House. For all his bluster, SP4 is right.
The feds tell you a structure is substandard for the purpose of informing the state to get it remedied, not to push it out 25 years. In my state, they knew a bridge had bad sheaves, but dragged their feet for almost 10 years to fix it.
The states are on the hook for road maintainence. I work for them and it's on our heads to make repairs, plain and simple. I do not know where this eurotrash gets his propaganda, but it ain't flyin here.
That's what I thought! Eurotrash...fits, don't it?
You got it! You put in a toll, build a sinking fund (not a pun) or a thousand other ways to get this done. No Bush excuses allowed. States have been successfully maintaining infrastructure for one hundred years, if their governments are on the job.
They can get dollars for a bridge to nowhere, but not to Minneapolis.
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