I believe I heard this on the news this morning. It will take $190 billion and a generation to fix all the troubled bridges in the USA.
Will these future fundings be considered pork barrel spending? Until then, will the highway department provide a spot to pull over and pray before crossing over a bridge?
2007-08-03 05:26:14 · 9 answers · asked by Overt Operative 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
When a liberal user misrepresented the facts again by stating it would cost over $460 Million (not exact but close) I included a link with the comments indicating it would cost over $188 Billion. (It was in a news article this morning.)
Far from what another liberal user claimed would be in excess of $1 Trillion.
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If you are of a religion other than what America can generally define as their own over the first 220 years in existence... Then you can pray anywhere. Otherwise you'll be impeding on someone else's rights whose more recently moved to this Country and by doing such a cursed action, you'll be fined or exported.
edit: Oops, I meant $188 Billion not Million
Here's the link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070803/ap_on_re_us/bridge_collapse
2007-08-03 05:36:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
this morning alon I ahve heard a trillion , 500 billion and now 190 billion . It is amazing how fast they come up with these numbers . I wonder if maintenance contracts that are already in effect are considered , I also wonder if a bridge falls how badly punished will these inspectors or maintenance companies be
2007-08-03 12:32:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cost (so far) for the war in Iraq:
$411 billion. Nice to see that we can re-build the infrastructure in Iraq, while our bridges collapse and steam pipes burst here at home.
"If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem." — George W. Bush, Jan. 2001.
2007-08-03 12:34:03 · answer #3 · answered by halfshaft 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
$190 Billion!!!!
Why that would cut into the Surge, Stay the Course, etc for at least 6 or 7 months...
Simply intolerable. Build bombs not bridges!
2007-08-03 12:30:24 · answer #4 · answered by outcrop 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because, like Ray Nagen in NO, the liberal politicians have been spending maintenance and repair funds on trips for their cohorts to Las Vegas, and other places. Want it stopped? Stop voting for lying, socialist, liberal Democrats- all of them, and most Republicans. So long as we have the "two party system" we will be ripped off. People need to diversity their investments in politics, like they diversify their investments in stocks.
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2007-08-03 12:42:45 · answer #5 · answered by krazykyngekorny 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to one estimate, the amount is over 1 trillion a year for twenty years!
2007-08-03 12:29:55 · answer #6 · answered by Sami V 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Our forefathers would have ok'ed prayer.
They called for a day of prayer after declaring independence.
2007-08-03 12:36:06 · answer #7 · answered by Duminos 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Next don't forget the airports they need fixing too. lol
2007-08-03 12:30:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That figure actually seems a bit low to me...
2007-08-03 12:32:33 · answer #9 · answered by spewing_originality 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋