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When President Bush and the Congress passed a 10-year Department of Transportation funding to improve our roads and highways, along with the infrastructure that was overdue, everybody applauded. It's paramount that we have a tendency to keep everything in operating order. Take into account if you may our transmission power lines, our dams, and our rail lines, or our highways and freeways, sewer treatment plants, our airports, and our ports. That is a heap of infrastructure to take care of.
Perhaps this can be why the topic came up about our crumbling infrastructure in America and the upgrades we have a tendency to need at a recent on-line think tank e-mail discussion. Below are some of my thoughts on the matter;
We seem to own a real drawback in the US as we have a tendency to have bridges that are obtaining previous and unsafe, and the number of dams within the US deemed unsafe is completely alarming, it's one disaster once another just waiting to occur. Our road ways in which, rail lines, ports, airports, all need an increase in monies and upgrades.
These priorities are important, and important infrastructure upgrades are means overdue. Municipalities have tons of challenges ahead, however no money. State governments well, they're stalled like cities with pension obligations, prices, and that they too have massive needs for upgrades. The Federal Highway system might use $700 Billion right currently, not to mention the power lines another $800 Billion minimum. Water infrastructure, desalination plants, etc, is beyond the point of no return currently, it's in crisis mode.
This year has been a wet year, good snow fall, smart water provide, five years from now we have a tendency to will be back in drought mode, solely a lot of worse, than last time, as currently even minor droughts become an enormous problem. The Obama administration has set forth billions of greenbacks as part of the stimulus package for shovel ready jobs up and beyond the number of money already previously allotted by the Bush administration for Department of Transportation funding.
This proposed cash was presupposed to kill multiple birds with one stone; particularly, give shovel ready jobs, that it did not appear to do, put additional funds into the economy, and we apprehend currently that very very little of that was spent, and fix the infrastructure that's beginning to crumble. There have been some serious projects slated, several dams, many bridges, and fixing of some of our highways.
Money was given to municipalities and states to repair potholes, and there was even some cash for high-speed rail. As you know none of this occurred, well very little anyway. Currently we are being told by this administration; it is the thought that counts. No it isn't, it's performance that counts, and I hope you'll please consider this.
