December 4th, 2008
As long as I’m pissing everyone off, I may as well add that every single bridge in the entire United States did not suddenly get worse the day a single bridge broke in Minnesota.
They have been junk for a long time and infrastructure improvements are not on anybodies (except a few contractors and their union buddies) list. It isn’t sexy enough — we have a country to protect from terrorists — and we have limited resources.
However, it might be worth noting, that more people died as a result of a single bridge collapse than have died as a result of domestic terrorism in the last seven years. Our roads, electrical grids and hospitals are falling apart while we throw billions of dollars into the wind pretending to fix the same problems in another country.
It’s your money, what do you want to do with it?
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