Cost to fix 70,000 “defficient” bridges: $188 billion. What a bargain!
More than 70,000 bridges across the country are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis and engineers estimate repairing them all would take at least a generation and cost more than $188 billion, The Associated Press reports.
The Moderate Liberal says: Only $188 billion to fix all of our 70,000 structurally deficient roads and bridges?
What a bargain, when compared to the War in Iraq, where George W. Bush has now spent nearly $500 billion, with no return to the American public.
While George W. Bush finds unlimited funds for War, the bridges in America tumble down, and its roads fall further into disrepair, and the national debt (borrowing from our children’s future) spirals out of control. The hard earned tax dollars of the American people are “invested” in a foreign land, while our country’s infrastructure crumbles, and Haliburton moves their headquarters to Dubai.
Where are our national priorities? Think about it — at a fraction of the cost of this war, we could fix all of America’s bridges. But instead of handing our kids a country with excellent infrastructure, our gift to them will be a debt the likes of which no American generation has ever been burdened with.