Transportation in major American cities is deplorable (it takes me an hour to go less than 20 miles on highways every morning).
Why don't we have more / faster trains? Better cargo shipping inland? An updated phone system? A national broadband internet system for all Americans to use? An improved national energy grid? To name just a few of the issues facing our aging infrastructure.
Once upon a time the infrastructure was one of the top issues for legislators and was one of their primary responsibilities. Why don't they do a better job with this now instead of just handing out pork contracts to companies and handouts to various special interest groups?
I'd really like to hear from an actual legislator why this is no longer an issue.
2006-07-20 05:07:31 · 3 answers · asked by OccumsRevelation 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Infrastructure repair is boring. It doesn't get a candidate enough votes. The results are too long term and candidates need to show those who bother voting that they are getting things done. It's also not a divisive enough issue. Who would be against infrastructure improvements? When does the media hold elected officials accountable for infrastructure problems? It takes a person of vision and patience to make that issue a higher priority.
2006-07-20 05:24:59 · answer #1 · answered by ulbud k 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the issue with each and each and every of the spending is that it is going to at least one position, and it truly is money you do not have. I stay in Canada today, used to stay contained in the states, yet nowcontinual a semi everywhere in the 40 8 states. WE pay taxes for the line use, bridge use, and so on. under no circumstances suggestions the different 3 million autos on the line. We pay street tax, no matter if we do not gasoline, for each state we shuttle by potential of. I see the line upkeep being finished by technique of the unions, because it is remitted in Canada and the USA of a. It takes years to finish initiatives that ought to take months. I see it in each and every state. purely attempt andcontinual by potential of Dayton, OH. they have been engaged on I-seventy 5 for 6 years and it remains no longer finished. No conservatives i understand are complaining about roads, bridges, law enforcement officials, firemen, instructors, garbage creditors, and each and each and every of the various different public workers. they don't look complaining about welfare for the detrimental, nor SS, medicare or Medicaid. they're complaining about the wasted spending in each and every branch, it truly is what I listen from all my fellow drivers.
2016-12-02 00:04:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're too busy lining their pockets with money meant to improve the infrastructure.
2006-07-20 05:12:15 · answer #3 · answered by Lonnie P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋