Thursday, August 2, 2007

No, really? who could have predicted this?

Well, okay, but it sounds expensive - who is going to pay for this? Maybe instead of frittering away billions every week in Iraq, we could, like, fix our bridges and roads, get health care for everyone, and.... An early estimate is $288 billion to fix the nation's bridges, or about a year in Iraq, where all of the bridges have been blown up. Another brilliant use of finances by Bsuh/Cheney & Co.

"A Wake-Up Call"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. politicians on Thursday treated the collapse of a highway bridge that killed or injured dozens of people as a jarring wake-up call to fix the nation's aging roads and bridges, but experts have been sounding the alarm for years with limited success.

More than 70,000 bridges rated deficient

1 comment:

Ranger said...

We simply have to build infrastructure for them over there to get blowed up to keep them from blowing it up over here.