America's infrastructure: Beams disintegrating under bridges

[JimBowie1958]

So why don't you stop advocating trillions on wealth redistribution schemes so we have the money to address infrastructure, or you just want to pile that on top of the trillions in debt we're piling up?

Howq is funding repair of our bridges so they dont collapse when we drive over them a 'wealth redistribution scheme'?

Didn't say it was, in fact I said it wasn't. Try reading it again and see if you get it this time?

Lol, I misread your post.

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Oldstyle]

America's infrastructure: Beams disintegrating under bridges
By Rene Marsh, David Gracey and Ted Severson, CNN

Updated 8:32 PM ET, Wed May 25, 2016

America's crumbling infrastructure - CNNPolitics.com

Washington (CNN)Nearly 40 million Americans will kick off one of the busiest travel seasons in history this Memorial Day weekend, jarred by potholes on America's roads, crossing her aging bridges, riding her antiquated railways and taking off from airports that draw international scorn.


Long a source of national pride, America's infrastructure is in critical need of repair, but federal government spending on the issue has gone down 9% in the past decade. As former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood says, "We're like a third-world country when it comes to infrastructure."

Anyone that believes we should cut a single cent out of infrastructure funding really does want to live within a third world shithole. If anything it is time to put more money into our infrastructure as even Trump has side and work to remain a world power.

Of course, that is common sense.

So let me see how this works, Matthew...we pay the government billions of dollars in gasoline taxes that are supposed to go towards maintaining our highways...our elected officials in Washington divert that money to other programs...and now you're demanding billions MORE be taken in taxes to fix what we've already paid to have fixed?

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

America's infrastructure: Beams disintegrating under bridges
By Rene Marsh, David Gracey and Ted Severson, CNN

Updated 8:32 PM ET, Wed May 25, 2016

America's crumbling infrastructure - CNNPolitics.com

Washington (CNN)Nearly 40 million Americans will kick off one of the busiest travel seasons in history this Memorial Day weekend, jarred by potholes on America's roads, crossing her aging bridges, riding her antiquated railways and taking off from airports that draw international scorn.


Long a source of national pride, America's infrastructure is in critical need of repair, but federal government spending on the issue has gone down 9% in the past decade. As former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood says, "We're like a third-world country when it comes to infrastructure."

Anyone that believes we should cut a single cent out of infrastructure funding really does want to live within a third world shithole. If anything it is time to put more money into our infrastructure as even Trump has side and work to remain a world power.

Of course, that is common sense.

So let me see how this works, Matthew...we pay the government billions of dollars in gasoline taxes that are supposed to go towards maintaining our highways...our elected officials in Washington divert that money to other programs...and now you're demanding billions MORE be taken in taxes to fix what we've already paid to have fixed?

yes, that is exactly what he is saying. He obviously pays no taxes.

 

[Oldstyle]

America's infrastructure: Beams disintegrating under bridges
By Rene Marsh, David Gracey and Ted Severson, CNN

Updated 8:32 PM ET, Wed May 25, 2016

America's crumbling infrastructure - CNNPolitics.com

Washington (CNN)Nearly 40 million Americans will kick off one of the busiest travel seasons in history this Memorial Day weekend, jarred by potholes on America's roads, crossing her aging bridges, riding her antiquated railways and taking off from airports that draw international scorn.


Long a source of national pride, America's infrastructure is in critical need of repair, but federal government spending on the issue has gone down 9% in the past decade. As former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood says, "We're like a third-world country when it comes to infrastructure."

Anyone that believes we should cut a single cent out of infrastructure funding really does want to live within a third world shithole. If anything it is time to put more money into our infrastructure as even Trump has side and work to remain a world power.

Of course, that is common sense.

So let me see how this works, Matthew...we pay the government billions of dollars in gasoline taxes that are supposed to go towards maintaining our highways...our elected officials in Washington divert that money to other programs...and now you're demanding billions MORE be taken in taxes to fix what we've already paid to have fixed?

yes, that is exactly what he is saying. He obviously pays no taxes.

It's not that we've "cut" spending for infrastructure...we've simply diverted the funds that were collected for that purpose to help pay for all of the other government programs that our leaders have decided were so crucial. They've done the same thing with Social Security as well. We've paid our share of taxes...they simply didn't get spent on what we were TOLD those taxes were needed for!