Whats worse? Bush ignoring Americas road infrastructure or New Orleans levies?

Question

The DOT is responsible to fund our highways and bridges.
The US Civil Engineer Corp. is responsible for the levies.
Which has worse oversight?

Oh and he has had 6 years to get them right.
He has done nothing or did nothing.

lets see the congress majority the last 6 years were republican and did Bush's bidding in Iraq yet THEY THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS DID NOT FUND THE LEVIES OR THE DOT WITH ENOUGH MONEY

For all you morons that never read anything here is Bush's own DOT appointee telling why they NO LONGER CAN FUND AMERICAS HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE.
You can shut up now.


Mary Peters is an advocate of private investment in U.S. public roads and of user fees for building new highways. In an interview, Peters said that the National Highway System will run out of money by decade's end without substantial changes and, rather than raise taxes, some states are turning to toll roads already to fill gaps.

"You just can't depend on the federal government to bring the money in that was around when the interstate system was first built," Peters said.[7]

70,000 deficient US bridges
Lets build 70,000 private bridges nationwide and tax the people with TOLLS.
NO BUSH NEVER TAXES THE PEOPLE.

You people are idiots those of you that think Bush is not in total control of congress.
Congress has been called the "do nothing congress " for a reason and 8 years of it were REPUBLICAN YEARS.
Listen up BOTH DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES WILL BE DONE AWAY WITH.
AMERICA IS ABOUT CITIZENS NOT PARTIES WHICH IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AS IT WAS NEVER ALLOWED FOR IN THE CONSTITUTION.
PERIOD.

State construction and maintenance is dependent on the US GOVERNMENT FOR 80% of those needs.
Bush has vetoed every bill that increases spending on the DOT .
SORRY LIARS!

Answer 1

The DOT is run by congress not Bush. Bush has other problems to worry about rather than a pothole in the road or the status of the thousands of bridges in the US. I know Bush is everyone's scape goat, but c'mon. This is other people not doing their job.

Answer 2

a Brief civics lesson. Congress, not the president spends the money and allocates federal funds. If money is spent or not spent it is their issue not the president's - he cannot write checks and his budget which he is constitutionally required to submit is never adopted.So it can not have anything to do with him

Roads and bridges are maitneined by local and state officials not the DOT- go get a civics studies book- oh waith your locals school systme must have failed you - must be bill clintons fault you didn't learn how gov't here works

Answer 3

Whats worse is when morons blame that kind of stuff on Bush, seeing as they knew the bridge was messed up in 1990, and the levies in New Orleans in the late 90's, so that wouldnt be bushes fault would it, second of all, the mayor and state should make sure that kind of thing gets taken care of, so quite blaming bush you moron

Answer 4

Yes, DOT -- which is primarily overseen by Congress.

Bush can't really take the hit for either disaster happening -- though I refrain from comment on whether Bush could have responded better after it happened....

Answer 5

bridges are an oversight. new orleans was inevitable. the outcome was just what everyone wanted. a flood that cleaned out the worst neighborhoods in america. no one wants the chocolate back. someday after the present landlords sell out to the right people those areas will be filled with casinos and bars. minneapolis was incompetence, new orleans was a politician/developer's answered prayer.

Answer 6

Minnesota had enough money to fund $7.16 million in free abortions but they can't afford to fix their own bridges. Looks to me like the liberals can't get their priorities straight.

Answer 7

do you really think that the presindent has any thing to do with theses types of issues? Might as well blame him for the ac not working in some random federal office

Answer 8

As much as I disagree with a lot of the stuff he's done I'm not dumb enough to blame him for everything that goes wrong as if we the people had no voice and no power ourselves.

Answer 9

No voice and no power?

We are highly muted.

The reflex action gets us to the ballot box, and there it ends.

Next thing you know, they march off to Washington and get palsy walsy with other party...and then a disaster occurs, and next thing you see is them all joining hands and singing for a sing along while the rest of us are begging for attention to our daily needs.

Like living in cramped spaces?

Like working with no security and in fear of take overs?

That's what you got now.

All because, your election process gets you a bunch of buddies all camping together rather than fighting for YOU!

Answer 10

The LORD had his say in LA. Voodoo, Satanic worship, drunkenness it's Sodom & Gomorrah all over again, And now that it's recovering it's back to it's old Sinful ways again. I think it was a warning that's not being heeded.