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Re: The Fix We Are In For: The State of Our Bridges

By: killthecat in FFFT | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 13 Jun 12 5:15 AM | 52 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Food For Further Thought 		Msg. 43431 of 65535
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Thanks OCU:

I don't know if this link is instrutive or not. I just don't see that many jobs, that many permanent jobs, or jobs or investments that have payback. $800 billion is a pile of money.

I'm too tired tonight to do much reading.


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Re: The Fix We Are In For: The State of Our Bridges
By: oldCADuser in FFFT
Wed, 13 Jun 12 4:46 AM 		Msg. 43429 of 65535

Here's one:

http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2010/10/04/news/doc4ca92b62b59ef995656018.txt

But that was the problem, in order for the stimulus to be effective as a stimulus it was limited to what was called 'shovel-ready' projects. Unfortunately, since bridge repair and replacement projects require significant planning and resource identification, even if one had a complete list of potential project outlined, it would have taken a year or so in most cases to start these projects. In many cases, it's not just the work on the bridge that has to be done, but you have to plan for alternate routing of traffic either by building temporary structures bypassing the actual work zone or by identifying suitable detour routes and such, the there's site preparation, ordering of material, etc. And since many of these sorts of projects were high cost the local authorities had down very little planning since there was no prospects of getting any money. After all, as mentioned previously, for the past 8 years any money that could have been set aside to rebuild America's infrastructure was being pissed away in Iraq rebuilding THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE which we had bombed the hell out of. Don't you agree that money was spent trying to fix what we broke over there that could've have better served the American people IF it had been spent here instead?

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