America's roads upgraded to D+
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Canceled.2014.1
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The power grid is aging badly too. But the upgrades mean work for me!!!
Sixty years ago a Republican president used government money to build the best interstate system in the world. Today, our nation's combined infrastructure isn't much better than a third world country's.
Sounds like a no-brainer for a stimulus funded by a transportation tax of some sort, or perhaps by ending gas company subsidies. One that would put hundreds of thousands to work and almost immediately end the deficit.
Sounds like a no-brainer for a stimulus funded by a transportation tax of some sort, or perhaps by ending gas company subsidies. One that would put hundreds of thousands to work and almost immediately end the deficit.
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Infrastructure is something we need to continually invest in. The return investment is huge. Two public investments that rarely go wrong are education and infrastructure.
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Well shoot, why hasn't the private sector made the investment? I thought the market was the answer to every problem?
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Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
What's the old saying "You can pay me now or you can pay me later." That's the reality of maintaining our infrastructure.
when if ever will we invest enough in our infrastructure to repair and expand it to 1st world status again
Billy the Great Khan
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Americas nuclear power grid could EASILY cover all our needs and our needs for the next century if properly upgraded.
cawacko
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Would you like private corporations to build our highways and charge tolls? Because they've talked about it in some places.
What's funny is highways are all our dickhead president talks about, and dumbshit signalman thinks he's doing the libtards a favor by presenting this evidence.
Canceled.2014.1
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The work we are doing is moving the power from the generating plant to the homes.
are the computers that control the grid capable of withstanding attacks from hackers
we can depend that sooner or later that our utilities and the computers that control them will be attacked some day by hackers
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Yea.....they talk about it. The reason they don't do it is because even charging tolls, with maintenance costs, they'res not really any profit for them as an individual business. However as a public contribution, we all profit.
right now private corporations build highways and freeways for the state and sometimes for county and city governments local roads
Billy the Great Khan
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Yeah there is some of that going on here as well, but that doesn't equate possible work for me. Renovating nuclear plants (there are two near by me) does. More money than I make here as well.