Crisis in America: A Crumbling Infrastructure
22nd November 2013
Even though his health-care website is still in need of dire repair, President Obama was in the port of New Orleans earlier this month talking about repairing a much bigger problem: the nation’s aging highways, bridges and ports. Saying that 1 in 9 bridges are structurally deficient and more than 40 percent of major highways are congested, Obama repeated his call for major infrastructure investment, but it’s unclear how or if that will happen.
As long as the government keeps wasting money on bullshit projects that people don’t want or need, like high-speed rail and HOV lanes, there won’t be any money for the things that people do want and need, like roads and bridges that aren’t falling apart.