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Fri Aug-03-07 12:10 PM
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| 26. If you look into it ... |
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a rotting, decrepit infrastructure has been the problem for a long time now ... nationwide. That's a fact. It is a problem across the board and it is reaching critical stages.
States have less funding now, as well. Even the burden for upkeep is reverting right down to local levels as money from those at that level is sucked out in various ways.
Some people think that their may be a push towards more privatization, (as with the prison system) and they are probably correct. However, who, in what is now gradually becoming a third-world, banana-style Republic, can afford to pay for the services company's come in to provide, via taxation or otherwise?
So, we have a rather "convenient" problem here when public monies are being squandered, pillaged, and diverted towards aggression and control.
Reminds me of the WPA. There are solutions to the infrastructure problem, but not the kind that strapped Americans will enjoy being compelled to participate in when the time comes. Ah, put public service sounds nice, don't it?
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| -there is NO money to fix the bridges, dams, roads, levees, etc. |
donsu |
Aug-03-07 10:45 AM |
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That about sums it up. n/t |
Texas Explorer |
Aug-03-07 10:46 AM |
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There is enough money for bombs and wars |
liberal N proud |
Aug-03-07 10:48 AM |
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War is profitable. Helping people isn't. |
HughBeaumont |
Aug-03-07 10:51 AM |
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People can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, bombs can't. |
progressoid |
Aug-03-07 12:08 PM |
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"Republican, because I CAN!" |
HughBeaumont |
Aug-03-07 12:20 PM |
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"Thousand points of light" ... another bumpersticker slogan they loved |
EVDebs |
Aug-03-07 01:02 PM |
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You also forgot to mention the $20 billion arms deal to the Arab states to help |
mrcheerful |
Aug-03-07 10:52 AM |
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How would the Junta's cronies make their money then? |
TechBear_Seattle |
Aug-03-07 10:52 AM |
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We need to beat our swords into bulldozers and fix our infrastructure |
liberal N proud |
Aug-03-07 11:16 AM |
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No argument from me n/t |
TechBear_Seattle |
Aug-03-07 11:24 AM |
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So true! |
FiveGoodMen |
Aug-03-07 02:29 PM |
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At $4,000 a minute, Iraq is really biting us in the ass. n/t |
unhappycamper |
Aug-03-07 10:50 AM |
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the neo cons are biting us - they have almost finished sucking the US dry |
donsu |
Aug-03-07 10:56 AM |
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Yikes! That would be the stat of the day. Let me do the math: |
JohnShadows |
Aug-03-07 12:29 PM |
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Go to costofwar.com and select your state and city for how much Iraq is costing us |
EVDebs |
Aug-03-07 12:54 PM |
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And that will be the rationale for selling public roadways and bridges |
no_hypocrisy |
Aug-03-07 10:56 AM |
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bingo - Quatar will rebuild Minn. bridge and charge a toll! goodie |
donsu |
Aug-03-07 11:00 AM |
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That's what they always do. Sell everything off. |
GreenPartyVoter |
Aug-03-07 11:09 AM |
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has anyone asked Minn. where the money will come from to |
donsu |
Aug-03-07 10:58 AM |
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They will turn to the bond market. |
A HERETIC I AM |
Aug-03-07 11:02 AM |
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Wall St vs. Main St and we know who wins that. Most districts limit bonding to 20% of assessed val |
EVDebs |
Aug-03-07 01:00 PM |
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Well, since the state of Minnesota uses a percent of income as their guide.... |
A HERETIC I AM |
Aug-03-07 02:37 PM |
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In regards to funding wastewater projects, the ONLY way in small towns is bonds |
EVDebs |
Aug-03-07 06:53 PM |
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I won't argue for one second that there is waste and fraud in major infrastructure projects. |
A HERETIC I AM |
Aug-03-07 09:01 PM |
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My point on all this infrastructure underfunding is that Al Gore ran on a sustainable growth agenda |
EVDebs |
Aug-03-07 10:57 PM |
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Raise the Fucking Taxes! |
stirlingsliver |
Aug-03-07 11:00 AM |
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a gold star to anyone who can get money from a rich neo con |
donsu |
Aug-03-07 11:04 AM |
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There is plenty of money for bridges, dams, roads, levees, etc |
krispos42 |
Aug-03-07 11:01 AM |
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"We" who? We have NO representation. NONE! n/t |
Texas Explorer |
Aug-03-07 11:03 AM |
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Same stuff, different year |
jdlh8894 |
Aug-03-07 11:02 AM |
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They're cutting scientific research funding to the bone too. |
aquart |
Aug-03-07 11:08 AM |
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And that's the real reason |
tiptoe |
Aug-03-07 11:10 AM |
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Ted Stevens and Don Young made sure there was money ($223 million) for a "bridge to nowhere" |
Tanuki |
Aug-03-07 11:15 AM |
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There is PLENTY of money, actually. But we are spending it over there |
kestrel91316 |
Aug-03-07 11:21 AM |
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but isn't the money we spend over there, borrowed money? |
donsu |
Aug-03-07 12:05 PM |
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I don't know; are the Halliburton execs living in real mansions and owning real stock, or not? |
WinkyDink |
Aug-03-07 03:06 PM |
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BINGO-that so needs to be a bumper sticker nt |
fed-up |
Aug-03-07 12:16 PM |
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If you look into it ... |
MatrixEscape |
Aug-03-07 12:10 PM |
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There is at least $100 billion in waste we could take from the defence budget. |
dkofos |
Aug-03-07 12:12 PM |
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SF Chron front page: we have "800 spans with same rating" |
sfexpat2000 |
Aug-03-07 01:04 PM |
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That is just B.S. |
ben_meyers |
Aug-03-07 01:11 PM |
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There is money to build detention centers for the "rapid development of new programs". |
Cobalt Violet |
Aug-03-07 01:11 PM |
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How do we take back the money that was stolen from us? |
Alexander |
Aug-03-07 02:38 PM |
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