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MnMikew wrote:
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MnMikew wrote:
And of course the Star & Sickle (Tribune) comes out with an editorial
today blaming the bridge collapse on our Republican Gov. Effing
moonbats.
It'll be Bush's fault before the weekend.


Stories are beginning to surface about the history of this bridge, and
how it was never intended to be an arterial conduit in the first place.

Yup. 40 years old and weak. Not good. Even though it was built in 1967 it
will still be Bushs fault. :-)


In fact, I just got this from a friend in Iowa 10 minutes ago:




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well, it IS his fault, with hundreds of billons going to a worthless war
that should have been spent on infrastructure. But I know, it would have
just been spent on hundred-dollar blowjobs for his friends anyway . . .

The leftys are soo predictable. I know we wasted a LOT of $$ here on a
worthless light rail system instead of infrastructure.


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"Zeke Zzzppt" wrote in message
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MnMikew wrote:
And of course the Star & Sickle (Tribune) comes out with an editorial
today blaming the bridge collapse on our Republican Gov. Effing moonbats.


Just like the sign on Truman's desk said-- "The buck stops here".

It's called "responsibility". The *******s (Republican -or- Democrat) try
to save money by deferring maintenance. Seeing as you didn't share the
article with us, I think the point of your newspaper was that he was THE
governor, not that he was a Republican governor. Why make it a political
thing?

Minnesota wasted millions building a worthless light rail system instead of
fixing roads.


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MnMikew wrote:
"Zeke Zzzppt" wrote in message
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MnMikew wrote:
And of course the Star & Sickle (Tribune) comes out with an editorial
today blaming the bridge collapse on our Republican Gov. Effing moonbats.

Just like the sign on Truman's desk said-- "The buck stops here".

It's called "responsibility". The *******s (Republican -or- Democrat) try
to save money by deferring maintenance. Seeing as you didn't share the
article with us, I think the point of your newspaper was that he was THE
governor, not that he was a Republican governor. Why make it a political
thing?

Minnesota wasted millions building a worthless light rail system instead of
fixing roads.




Didn't they also spend millions restoring the theatre downtown
Minneapolis...and building a replica sailing ship for the river front?

To be perfectly fair, there really isn't a budget in most states for
fixing things.

Roads are built to be rebuilt, but not restored. The very structure
of the Interstates requires them to be pulled up once patching ceases to
be effective, instead of merely resurfacing, or restoring the top two
layers, as the Germans do. If we built roads with the intention of
maintaining, rather than replacing them, in the first place, there would
be a whole lot of money that could be wasted elsewhere.

But who listens to me?

Similarly, bridges, railways, electrical systems...they're all built
to be replaced as needed, rather than restored. With a little longer
vision, we'd have a much less obsolete infrastructure in this country,
and a lot more money for the frills that seem to delight politicians, so.

But this is what we get for electing career politicians who learn to
focus only on the next 2/4 year election rather than the term/terms
before them. Career politicians who learn that appearance of activity is
more important than results.

We get the government we deserve. If we stopped putting up with it,
things would change.





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