Milwaukee is literally collapsing.

[Scuba]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/117897269.html?page=1


The city of Milwaukee is literally collapsing. The latest is a huge sinkhole near the Humboldt Bridge that swallowed two cars (see link). List below is from a jsonline.com blogger who is better informed than I.

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1. O'Donnell Park - facades falling
2. City Hall - concrete falling
3. Hoan Bridge - concrete falling
4. North Ave. - sink hole
5. County Medical building - concrete falling
6. Marquette Interchange on-ramp - cracks
7. Humboldt Bridge - sink hole
8. City Wide - massive sewage backups / flooding


I believe that all of the above are just from this past year alone.

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[highplainsdem]

1. K&R. But unfortunately this is true of most cities nationwide. Not enough spending to

maintain or replace the infrastructure.

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. It costs too much to repair...

...and it's used mostly by the wrong kind of people.

Create two, three, many Detroits.

[Keith Bee]

25. Why spend on tangible things when we can blow a trillion on money-movers?

:sarcasm:

[Oceansaway]

2. infrastructure......nt

[aquart]

5. Yep. A federal jobs program coulda fixed all that.

Sigh.

[WatsonT]

11. Like the one promised in the stimulus

that never really materialized.

[defendandprotect]

19. Exactly ... the New Deal was one of the greatest stimulus events ever put in place ...

we need a new one -- but this time without capitalism -- let's just go directly

to economic democracy!!

[hlthe2b]

4. sigh....

How frequently is this scenario repeated throughout the US? :shrug:

I remember when the former mayor (first black female) of Atlanta went after sewage infrastructure and how remarkable it was that she managed to get some needed improvements, sans a catastrophe having already occurred. I think mayors across the country were amazed.

Yet all the RETHUGS want to do is fire the workers who inspect and service these projects, and privatize the rest of the infrastructure, leaving us all at the whim of monetary interests.

[Evolve_Already]

28. Indeed

Shirley Franklin in my opinion did the very best she could with the hand she was dealt.

[kestrel91316]

6. This is what happens when the free market runs amok. Buildings owned by

corporations are not maintained (hurts profits) and taxes for maintaining public infrastructure are not raised.

[lpbk2713]

7. Is this a RW website?

Most of the comments seem to lean that way.


"I wish death upon all union members." Mar 13, 2:30pm


Nice. Real nice. Apparently Walker has time to post on message boards.

[Scuba]

8. Yes, the pro-Walker...

...crowd is a viscious bunch. The Journal/Sentinel used to be a respected publication, but now is just another mouthpiece for the right.

Their lead article on the protest in Madison yesterday was a piece interviewing the pro-Walker protesters - both of them!

[NYC Liberal]

13. Notice how you don't see DUers or liberals "wishing death"

on all teabaggers?

[Release The Hounds]

17. First rule of reading the Milwaukee Urinal

is never, ever read the comments.

[Angry Dragon]

9. walker used to be the county executive that includes Milwaukee

This is what he will do to the state

He also fired people illegally and then the country had to pay back wages
This money should come out of his pocket

[pretzel4gore]

10. oil belongs in the ground, where it tranfers stress

when the oil industry got going, there were people who noticed that ...oil wasn't renewable- it took eons to make, and, well....but the pig got going and he created the modern world based upon 'free oil' that made mister pig and sons george etc vastly wealthy. Unfortunately. EVERY SINGLE OUNCE OF OIL removed from the planet surface core NEEDS to be put back, someday, even if it cost $1000 trillion pesos! Otherwise, the planet must become unstable from within...and vast 12 Richter scale earthquakes will occur within 50 years, and noone survive a 12 Richter scale quake (the oceans wash away all life except bacterial)

Rush limbo is the truth...and all he says is 'get over it'

[Old and In the Way]

12. Taxcuts will fix the infrastructure.

Taxcuts fix everything. Wait till you see all the jobs that get created with these taxcuts!

[Overseas]

14. Sad K&R. //nt

[lib2DaBone]

15. Ya.. but we are spending $436 MILLION PER DAY in Afghanistan...

You see, it's all a matter of "priorities". Our Congress people and Senators have slightly different "priorties", other than middle class America.

[PeaceNikki]

16. We can thank the former County Exec for all he did to set us up for this.

Deferred maintenance, no-bid contracts for his pals... a real asshole. Everyone know who that was?

[donheld]

18. What I don't understand is what is the point of them letting infrastructure go to hell?

[PeaceNikki]

20. He "saved money" by deferring necessary maintenance.

[donheld]

22. But isn't rotten infrastructure bad for business just as it is for we the common folk?

I'm not talking about just Wisconsin but Infrastructure is in shambles nationwide. There has to be more to it than just money.

[PeaceNikki]

23. Not if the falling apart happens on someone else's watch.

That's the problem, nobody wants to spend the almighty tax dollar on stuff that's not war.

[moondust]

21. Not a cash cow?

Maybe a bit cynical but these days I'm not sure how much you can get done without guaranteed returns on investment.

[HuckleB]

24. Yup, Walker left a mess. And you didn't even mention the Bucks.

Hmmmm.

[PeaceNikki]

26. He hates Milwaukee and wants it to suffer in any and every way.

[HuckleB]

27. Yup.