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Community => Politics and Government => Topic started by: Fpqxz on April 27, 2012, 07:58:01 am
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...says the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/nations-aging-electrical-grid-needs-billions-of-dollars-in-investment-report-says/2012/04/26/gIQAEl12jT_story.html?wprss=rss_politics)
A staggering investment is needed in infrastructure that is reaching the end of its life span if the United States is to remain competitive and serve its growing population.
The experts have been saying that for years, and the latest report on an aspect of their concern was released Thursday, when the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) described the nation’s electrical grid as a patchwork system that ultimately will break down unless $673 billion is invested in it by 2020.
If investment isn’t increased by at least $11 billion a year, the report said, the electrical service interruptions between now and 2020 will cost $197 billion.
In other words, for those of us who have actually been paying attention, this isn't news, but our so-called leaders continue to bury their heads in the sand.
Rome didn't fall in a day, you know...
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This sort of investment would've been perfect in 2009 when the recession was at its worst. It certainly would've been a whole lot more helpful than bailing out the people who at the very least greatly exacerbated the mess in the first place.
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I once read that the national infrasctructure in the US needs $1 trillion of urgent upgrades. That was about 2008-ish so it's probably more now. Seems to me that could be the motivation for putting in place one of the biggest job creation projects in history, but that won't happen until congress stops swordfighting with their dicks.
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This sort of investment would've been perfect in 2009 when the recession was at its worst. It certainly would've been a whole lot more helpful than bailing out the people who at the very least greatly exacerbated the mess in the first place.
Gee, ya think?!
But sadly no, major FDR-style public works projects are no longer in vogue, even if they are needed. We've sacrificed them on the altar of "small government" and "lower taxes". Can't have too much pressure on those "job creators", especially when the upper marginal tax rate is the lowest it has been in years.
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Can't wait til November! GET THOSE BOZOS OUT!!!!
Then, we can tackle the infrastructure issue since there'll be less nuts in power!
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Silly, we can't have improvements to our infrastructure, that would involve spending money where it's really needed, and that's considered socialism nowadays...
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Love your sarcasm nickinack
Yes we need to upgrade our systems badly, but the asshats in congress are just holding us back and not only that but this would be productive and helpful towards our economy as it would open a lot of jobs up for people that have no jobs now.
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Not just electricity the water systems are so bad we lost a 1/4 of our water from leaks etc
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Looks like a good time to stock up on candles and propane stoves.
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This is Obama's fault. With an unfillibusterable majority, he could have written, and passed, a law that provided sufficient stimulus spending. But he didn't want to be 'partisan'- he preferred Americans to be poor.
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Silly, we can't have improvements to our infrastructure, that would involve spending money where it's really needed, and that's considered socialism nowadays...
you!
get out of my head...
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If you want to see the "law of the jungle ' -- rampaging mobs surging through our communities and killing you for your tuna fish -- disrupt electrical power for about five days.
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Love your sarcasm nickinack
Yes we need to upgrade our systems badly, but the asshats in congress are just holding us back and not only that but this would be productive and helpful towards our economy as it would open a lot of jobs up for people that have no jobs now.
Remember, spending public tax money on public utilities is socialism communism fascism just plain evil. But giving tax breaks to multibillionaires so they can move huge undisclosed sums of cash between offshore accounts generates tons of jobs and makes the angels sing. Besides, when the grid completely fails, it will be a perfect opportunity for disaster capitalists job creators to sweep in and privatize fix everything.
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The solution to this is more tax cuts for the rich. Obviously.
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The solution to this is more tax cuts for the rich. Obviously.
The solution is always more tax cuts for the rich
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If you want to see the "law of the jungle ' -- rampaging mobs surging through our communities and killing you for your tuna fish -- disrupt electrical power for about five days.
Without electrical power, there is no way to store food other than canning (which most people aren't equipped to do). Hence, the food supply is disrupted (along with television, CATV, internet service, etc).
There's an old saying--"every society is three meals away from chaos". People will tolerate all kinds of fucked-up shit from their rulers...but they won't tolerate quite so much if they have to do so on an empty stomach.
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It would be too easy to see it all go boom if failing infrastructure leads to problems down the road. I suddenly have the urge to build an underground bunker...let me see what that would entail...
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America: Because infrastructure is for liberal pinko commie faggots.