Bush Tax Cuts at Work: Roads, Waterways, and Skies are a Mess

[WhiteTara]

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/03/30/your-bush-tax-cuts-at-work-roads-waterways-and-skies-are-a-mess/

Our work force could be fixing our infrastructure, replanting our forests, finding new ways to power our homes and cities, but no - we are busy killing as many people as we can, and we all know that is an expensive proposition.

Chalk up another failure for the Bush tax cuts. The head of UPS today is warning that America’s neglected infrastructure is hobbling us in the global marketplace.
“What’s shocking, quite frankly, is the inability of our transportation infrastructure to keep up with the normal day-to-day stresses imposed upon it,” said UPS CEO Mike Eskew

Describing the nation’s roads, ports, railroads and airports as the backbone of global trade, UPS’s chief executive officer today warned that America was taking a chance with its future by neglecting its infrastructure.

“What’s shocking, quite frankly, is the inability of our transportation infrastructure to keep up with the normal day-to-day stresses imposed upon it,” said UPS CEO Mike Eskew. “Our highways, waterways, railroads and aviation networks are simply not keeping up with ordinary demands.
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“In 2005, here’s what our infrastructure report card looked like: our aviation system got a D+; navigable waterways a D-; roads a D, and rails a C-.”

“What does the overall report card on our national transportation infrastructure look like? Well, let’s put it this way: if your kids brought home report cards like this, someone would be grounded.”

[Bozita]

1. "Mission Accomplished"

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Most of that stuff doesn't matter when you live in a gated community

and live off investments. Doesn't everybody do that now days?

[Erika]

3. Third world nation, here we come

Including elimination of the middle class. Our wealthy has never seen better days.

[madrchsod]

4. one of the busiest roads in the usa

is going to be tore up for two years and there is no good way around it-the chicago dan ryan. there thousands of miles of roads that need rebuilding but the money is all spent.

[WhiteTara]

5. I was driving in Oregon

and they don't have stripes painted on their roads. That was REALLY fun :sarcasm:

[cliss]

6. I've been working at the PDX Portland airport,

and I can tell you a D+ is too high. The people who work at the airport are paid minimum wage. These are the working poor. They have huge health problems; one lady told us today that she takes 400 mg of morphine every morning + plus Xanax and Codeine (?) all on an empty stomach. The woman seems mentally unbalanced.

NOW, she drives vehicles around the airport!! Her husband, who is probably in worse shape, is in charge of refueling the airplanes. These people are walking disasters. And they're in charge of human lives.

Meanwhile, you have exhausted people working out on the tarmac. These people work 3 or 4 shifts; they never leave the airport. They just go to their cars in-between shifts and try to catch up on sleep.

Mark my words, we're going to have some kind of airport disaster.

WE'RE ALL LIVING IN BUSH WORLD>