do.rflex wrote: > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The bridge symbolizes the state of the US economy ready to collapse at >> any time. If you don't believe it the bridge's collapse itself is the >> result of the strangulation of government from the Reagan regime onward. >> > > > Governments all over the country have been robbing Peter to pay Paul, > shifting money to immediate needs like health care and child welfare > and hoping against hope that the roads and bridges and buildings built > during the new deal era held up. "No New Taxes" has been the rallying > cry for decades now, but nobody ever said how we were supposed to pay > for the things we all take for granted. And, of course, when things > like this happen, the wingers blame the government and everyone > decries taxes even more. > > I have to wonder if any Republicans were on that bridge last night. If > there were, they must have realized that sometimes we really are all > in it together. > > http://tinyurl.com/yp4ryc The Republican governor of Minnesota vetoed the funs that could have fixed that bridge.
"The tragic collapse this week of a stretch of I-35 spanning the Mississippi river in Minnesota was shocking but should come as no surprise. America's core infrastrucure has been falling apart in very visible ways during the past few years. It's a predictable outcome of the rise of "backlash" conservatism; we've swallowed 30 years of small-government rhetoric, and it's led us to a point in which our infrastructure, once the pride of the developed world, is falling apart around us. We're reaping what we've sown." Read the rest here: http://www.alternet.org/story/58716/ The Republicans are real good however at giving funds to the rich in the form of tax cuts.
