It Wasn't Terrorism. Who needs al Qaeda when you have 83-year-old underground pipes?

[marmar]

from TomPaine.com:


It wasn't terrorism.
Submitted by Rick Perlstein on July 18, 2007 - 9:43pm.


It's E. coli conservatism.

An explosion wracked the area around Manhattan's Grand Central Station today, spewing asbestos, claiming one life, sending the city into a panic. The culprit? A pipe built in 1924.

We've warned here again and again about the decrepitude of our underground infrastructure, about what happens when a nation consecrates itself to no higher domestic goal than the cutting of taxes. New York had a Republican mayor, in fact, who now spends his days boasting that he cut taxes 23 times. Cut spending, too, he's proud to say.

"Midtown is chaos right now," said one witness. "It seemed like everybody in Midtown just dumped into the streets."

"It was mayhem. Nobody knew what to do. Everyone got outside and was yelling," said another.

Maybe it's time to stop listening to conservatives, and start listening to Merle Haggard.

http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/its_not_terrorism?tx=3

[Captain Hilts]

1. Imagine how much the Iraq War $$$ would do to repair our country's infrastructure. nt

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2. True but we'd never go into debt for infrastucture like we are in iraq

The one thing about the money being whole sale dumped into Haliburton, er... I mean Iraq, is that its all on credit.
We'd NEVER spend that kind of credit on infrastructure. We'd raise taxes, and be responsible, but we'd never spend that kind of dough on local projects, like universal health and safe roads, pipes, etc. Those kinds of things are generally paid out of pocket with the honest money you happen to have on you.