--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 8/3/07 12:12:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > you think the bridge collapsed due to structural failure willy? wow > that's brillant. structural problems in the bridge were noted years > ago by inspectors, the issue is why there hasn't been any structural > repairs on the bridge since and the influence of budget cuts on that. > > > > > Who ever said there was no money to make the repairs? Perhaps somebody just > didn't think it was necessary to make repairs until it was too late. > > The money that goes to repairing state roads and bridges is tied to federal funds. The Republicans have been slowly eroding federal government spending on infrastructure, schools, roads, hospitals, and so on in the name of lower taxes. At the same time they have increased tax loopholes for corporations and the rich as well as increased spending on the military industrial complex.
The result has left states strapped for cash to pay for routine maintenance of public works. In New York City a couple of weeks ago gas pipes exploded, In most cities the schools are in urgent need of repair, there are not enough text books for classes, many states are considering turning freeways into toll roads, hospitals are closing everyday, state mental facilities don't exist anymore. In LA 35,000 mentally ill people live on the street. Meanwhile the upper 3% of the wealth of the US has become more concentrated. Don't be foolish to think that, "Perhaps somebody just didn't think it was necessary to make repairs until it was too late." The funds are not there. Most of our infrastructure in the US dates back to post WWII when a government by the people was the ideology of the day. Now government is considered evil and starved by a greedy corporate ogliarchy. At least we have TM to calm ourselves as the boat sinks. s
