I do recall Bush being blamed for the bridge.

Very little of the stimulus is being used for infrastructure iirc.

Pete

Hope you don't mind me steeling that and adding it to my rhetorical arsonal. Quite on ponit.

This article, which bashes the stimulus, says $100 Billion is going to infrastructure.

http://www.propublica.org/special/st...-chart-and-map

The I35 bridge collapse was a tragedy but I don't recall any conversation about blaming it on union workers. The bridge had passed inspections but rated a 4 on a scale of 1-9 I believe with 9 being a perfect score and 0 being a complete shut down. It came down due to gusset plate failure caused by all the added stress of the work that was being done on the bridge at that time.

I hope it has changed the way in which we evaluate inspection data nationally. I don't consider maintaining infrastructure a "program", just work that needs to be done. Putting aside where we are at today, this is the kind of thing that our government dollars should be spent on. I guess other programs have been deemed more important.


RC

Assuming the stimulus was 750 bil (I think it's 850) that's 13%. Should've been 99% imo, at least spend it on something permanent!

Gosh, you Dems love the doomsday GOP scenarios :)

Pete

Have at it, Ed.

I think we should embrace all illegals and encourage more. In fact why don't we just drop the whole US citizen/Illegal Alien thing and have a dang Hootenanny! I mean after all, how dare us lay claim to any chunk of land when we are actually a global citizens of the one united planet. Line starts on the left.

Your actually comparing peoples concerns about the amount of illegals in this country and the inherent ecomomic affects to Hitlers Germany???

RC

Thank you.

Wow, it works really well!

Reagan did.

Joe Arpaio
Tom Tancredo
Shawna Forde

John

Regards,
Dave