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Original Message I am cutting and pasting my post from another topic to open this conversation so bear with me a little...

"Well...this is a pickle isn't it? Both political parties suck and that is all there is to it.

However, the spending we are doing abroad must stop. There are things WE NEED to do in this country to keep our living standard and commerce moving forward and as long as we're dropping billions to buy friends overseas...it's not getting done.

I work in construction engineering...have for 28 years. We really need to fix our bridges and roads before we start seeing bad-bad things happening. (Do you want to get a phone call one day that your wife and kids are gone cause a bridge collapsed on their way to the mall? It can happen...)

This isn't fear mongering mind you. I can go in any direction from my house and within 15 to 20 minutes I can take you under almost any bridge and show you where the metal is just falling apart from neglect. What have we been doing about it?...Nothing...well, we downgrade it's carrying capacity instead of fixing it. How long do you think you can do that until the big trucks are suddenly trapped and have to go miles and miles around to find a bridge that can carry them?

This needs to be done for the sake of moving products efficiently and for safety...not only that, It is a win-win on several different levels.

Fixing bridges hires construction workers.

Fixing bridges requires steel and concrete...so both of those industries pick up workers. (Mills and concrete plants)

With these workers back on the job, people will start buying products...general manufacturing improves.

Retail sales improves.

People start eating out more often....restaurants do better.

People start going on vacations again...tourism, national parks and resorts do better.

I know some people say fixing the bridges is bad...but it needs to be done. I am not saying it's to fix the economy, I'm saying it needs to be done for safety and practical commerce of moving a product efficiently from point A to point B. If a trucker has to go 100 miles around because the nearest bridges are downgraded below his weight...your products are going to start costing more.

Go out and take a look at your nearest bridge...no...get out of your car and walk all around it. See if the concrete is falling apart and the reinforcing is exposed. See how many holes pass completely through the road deck. See how many rusted layers of steel you can pull off with with your bare hands...then tell me we don't need to address this looming problem seriously.


I am a Libertarian by the way but when something needs to be done, it needs to be done (or fixed). It's not the place of Corporations to fix bridges and roads...that is why we pay taxes, that is why we have a Gov to begin with. I am not talking about a "socialist" system here...I am talking about the very reasons we pay taxes and have a Gov...to take care of interstate roads and bridges...as well as provide "border" defense."

Screw the rest of the world...time to start spending my and your tax dollars right here...tell the military industrial contractors to get a "general contractors" license and start fixing things here at home...that way they don't have to get off the tax revenue tit...everyone is happy.

Just my opinion...I'd like to hear what others think about this issue we will soon have to deal with.
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