"When Infrastructure Attacks!!"

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from TomPaine.com:


"When Infrastructure Attacks!!"
Submitted by Rick Perlstein on July 19, 2007 - 7:27pm.

Elana Levin says it even better:

When chasms in the earth open up near Grand Central the media tends to report it. Even Fox. But what you won't see in the media by and large is a discussion of why it is that these accidents take place. Sure they'll explain how the explosion was caused by water hitting an antediluvian steam pipe but they just won't make the connection between the lack of investment in our country's infrastructure and things going kablooie. You see it takes money to keep any locality running. And localities get that money through our taxes....

Recently there was a poll on a New York entertainment magazine's website that asked what NYC should do with its budget surplus. There were two options. A. tax rebate or B. save the money for a rainy day.

I was frustrated.... My money can do a lot more than pay a month's cellphone bill if my money is working in concert with other people's dollars. In fact that's what we need to do to keep our country functioning like a developed nation. So in that little poll I'd like to vote C. put that money into building public infrastructure right now. Smart investors know you need to spend money to make money.

Here's the thing, too, about the palpable relief New Yorkers were expected to feel once it was revealed to them that this wasn't a terrorist attack. Most Americans won't ever know what it feels like to truly be vulnerable to a terrorist attack, because there are only a large handful of towns with symbolically important sites in American that terrorists might target.

But every town has underground pipes. And most, say the American Society of Civil Engineers, have pipes that are fifty years old or more. In this profound sense—it threatens everyone, everywhere—this rot is more worrisome than a terrorist attack.

Plus this is truly an enemy within. Every day, conservative politicians fight for the right not to take care of infrastructure. "Government is not the solution. Government is the problem."

http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/when_infrastructure_attacks?tx=3

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1. Hey "America's Mayor"

You were Mayor of NYC for how long ? Long enough, right?
And Rudy, what did you do to improve the ailing infrastructure of our city??
Nothing. No thing.
Yo. can we have a big bronx cheer emoticon right here ?!!

pffffffffffffffffft !!!!