Historic low cost of money coupled with high unemployment and our politicians could not manage to make huge improvements in failing infrastructure. Shame on them.
I don’t know what it takes to get our lawmakers to start addressing problems like infrastructure. I have been around for a long time and it is quite clear the US is headed downhill in many areas. It is not the fault of immigrants, or China or Putin. Our congress spends all of it’t time investigating email and doing nothing to push us back to number one. The republicans can’t even manage their own party. Just look at the parade of clown presidential candidates they have. We need to value and elect competence, not political gamesmanship and religious ideology. I am worried my grand-kids will have a much harder life as the US continues it’s death spiral.
It’s also governors and state legislatures who spend the monies collected from tolls, taxes on freight-haulers and gasoline on "other things’! This is why I opposed another hike to the gas tax!
No problem! I’ll just use that new highway that’s being built in the middle of nowhere, to satisfy developers. Anyway, too many potholes on the existing roads.
I suspect that, if all the available money were committed to maintenance of existing infrastructure, the shortage would be far less dire.
Hello people we have had two count them two over a trillion dollar stimulus plans for infrastructure. you know shovel ready jobs, where did all that money go. that was when dems had super majorities in house and senate.
There is plenty of money for the money junkies on Wall Street as well as the Military Industrial Complex. Also it appears that there is enough money to keep on allowing Illegal Aliens to flood the streets of our nation.
If the railroads hadn’t resisted mandated safety equipment for years, the train would have been equipped with a governor that would keep it from going too fast. Simple as that. The GOP is all for spending the money on their friends in the defense and prison industries, not so much on bridges and roads.
Jaxx Kelly: The last multiple death bridge collapse was an Interstate highway over the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Paul several years ago. Isn’t that a long enough period to permit discussion of infrastructure decay in a cartoon? Or do you insist on never?
what happened to all the $900 billion shovel ready that bho got /// dear wmconnelly the track at wreck is ok the engineer is not // the track is not fed property // the law to require govenors was kicked down the track for a favor to bho buddy buffet
This summer might be one of those break and sue vacations times. When we find out how our roads and bridges do and they seek a lawyer so we can sue. Then spend the next nine months trying to figure out we can avoid Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (what’s wrong with boats?) to find a good deal?
Bridges and other infrastructure across the country has been neglected for decades by the "don’t tax me now’ factions in the public, and the profit taking contractors, MIC and others, like well oil industry subsidies, auto industry subsidies and buyouts, and it’s corporate America being bailed out (at least their money safely escaped to the Caymans) by conservative lawmakers, Republican, and yes, Democrats as well.
Ike saw a need, and did build our infrastructure, it was with his latter day folks that the benign neglect syndrome became pollcy.
Which how many folks get annual physicals, isn’t it a good idea for folks to do so and head off problems BEFORE they become deadly? Hmm, “Obamacare” sees that as an important acjunct to health care, so like bridge maintenance, it’s bad and has to go!
For all the “trillions of stimulus dollar” nonsense we hear here, the actual stimulus was $700B, and the republicans required a third of it be in useless tax cuts. I got $4 a week, thanks. When the cons pushed that down Obama’s throat they knew the could roll him. And he’s caved ever since.
Right, let it collapse from bureaucratic neglect instead, so the Dem’s can say they need to tax us some more..http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/amtrak-speed-control-system-installed-but-wasnt-turned-on/article/2564542
All you LWNJ’s who keep blaming the Republicans for not wanting to spend more money, ASK Joe Biden where the stimulus money went. It was over $1 Trillion dollars that was supposed to go to infrastructure. I’m betting not even .00001% was spent on infrastructure. It went to the unions and other democratic slush funds.
You nuts need to wake up and quit drinking the democratic koolaid. Quit blaming the Republicans for wanting to be responsible with YOUR money. AND quit blaming FOX news for reporting the truth, just because you listen to MSLSD (and probably take a hit too).
Yeah, because the D’s have been in power from 2007 to 2011 in the House of Reps and were in power in the Senate until 2015 and did nothing…..and a D has been in the WH since 2009 and did nothing, yet its the republicans fault…..Amtrak received stimulus money and chose to spend it on disability items vs. safety items, plus they have been fully funded……yet it’s still a republican problem. The idiots commenting that it’s a R issue on this thread are obviously too stupid to vote and therefore should not do so because they only listen to the leftist mouthpiece media and their BS. I am always so amazed at the ignorance (or stupidity) of the D’s that comment on this toon, perhaps I should just accept that you were all dropped on your heads repeatedly when you were babies and just call it a day.
Too many of the above comments are not consistent with the Constitution’s aim “to promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity!”
Jack Man Premium Member almost 9 years ago
How sick to try and tie this to a major tragedy before the dead are buried.
jessie d. Premium Member almost 9 years ago
How sick to deny funding the next day with the dead still unburied.
Odon Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Historic low cost of money coupled with high unemployment and our politicians could not manage to make huge improvements in failing infrastructure. Shame on them.
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member almost 9 years ago
I don’t know what it takes to get our lawmakers to start addressing problems like infrastructure. I have been around for a long time and it is quite clear the US is headed downhill in many areas. It is not the fault of immigrants, or China or Putin. Our congress spends all of it’t time investigating email and doing nothing to push us back to number one. The republicans can’t even manage their own party. Just look at the parade of clown presidential candidates they have. We need to value and elect competence, not political gamesmanship and religious ideology. I am worried my grand-kids will have a much harder life as the US continues it’s death spiral.
moosemin almost 9 years ago
It’s also governors and state legislatures who spend the monies collected from tolls, taxes on freight-haulers and gasoline on "other things’! This is why I opposed another hike to the gas tax!
larryrhoades almost 9 years ago
Build a bridge in the USA and you’ve got it for 50+ years; but build a bridge in Iraq/Iran/Afghanistan and you can build it again next year.
vwdualnomand almost 9 years ago
Most of bridges are in desperate need of replacement and repair. Some bridges I feel are close to collapse.
Cerabooge almost 9 years ago
No problem! I’ll just use that new highway that’s being built in the middle of nowhere, to satisfy developers. Anyway, too many potholes on the existing roads.
I suspect that, if all the available money were committed to maintenance of existing infrastructure, the shortage would be far less dire.
cj brouillette jr Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Hello people we have had two count them two over a trillion dollar stimulus plans for infrastructure. you know shovel ready jobs, where did all that money go. that was when dems had super majorities in house and senate.
npd1969 almost 9 years ago
There is plenty of money for the money junkies on Wall Street as well as the Military Industrial Complex. Also it appears that there is enough money to keep on allowing Illegal Aliens to flood the streets of our nation.
inevattable almost 9 years ago
How else are they going to pay for the war they started, maintained and then the progressive reconstruction.
Kip W almost 9 years ago
If the railroads hadn’t resisted mandated safety equipment for years, the train would have been equipped with a governor that would keep it from going too fast. Simple as that. The GOP is all for spending the money on their friends in the defense and prison industries, not so much on bridges and roads.
braindead Premium Member almost 9 years ago
It’s not neglect.
It’s deliberate refusal to improve anything, lest Obama get any credit for it.
There is plenty of money to buy weapons systems the pentagon doesn’t even want.
There are plenty of tax subsdies so that giant corporations pay no income tax at all.
Does no one remember all the secret earmarks when Republicans were in power?
hippogriff almost 9 years ago
Jaxx Kelly: The last multiple death bridge collapse was an Interstate highway over the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Paul several years ago. Isn’t that a long enough period to permit discussion of infrastructure decay in a cartoon? Or do you insist on never?
oneoldhat almost 9 years ago
what happened to all the $900 billion shovel ready that bho got /// dear wmconnelly the track at wreck is ok the engineer is not // the track is not fed property // the law to require govenors was kicked down the track for a favor to bho buddy buffet
ron2nips almost 9 years ago
This summer might be one of those break and sue vacations times. When we find out how our roads and bridges do and they seek a lawyer so we can sue. Then spend the next nine months trying to figure out we can avoid Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (what’s wrong with boats?) to find a good deal?
Dtroutma almost 9 years ago
Bridges and other infrastructure across the country has been neglected for decades by the "don’t tax me now’ factions in the public, and the profit taking contractors, MIC and others, like well oil industry subsidies, auto industry subsidies and buyouts, and it’s corporate America being bailed out (at least their money safely escaped to the Caymans) by conservative lawmakers, Republican, and yes, Democrats as well.
Ike saw a need, and did build our infrastructure, it was with his latter day folks that the benign neglect syndrome became pollcy.
Which how many folks get annual physicals, isn’t it a good idea for folks to do so and head off problems BEFORE they become deadly? Hmm, “Obamacare” sees that as an important acjunct to health care, so like bridge maintenance, it’s bad and has to go!
oneoldhat almost 9 years ago
note to jase99 was it a state bridge // if it a fed bridge bho will stop $ from going to a gop state
Dtroutma almost 9 years ago
tarredand feathered; not “trivia” at all, they were called “National Defense Highways” at the time.
philnuffer almost 9 years ago
Hmmm. Didn’t the Democrats have a majority in congress and not do anything about the infrastructure? The Republicans are just as bad.
kaffekup almost 9 years ago
For all the “trillions of stimulus dollar” nonsense we hear here, the actual stimulus was $700B, and the republicans required a third of it be in useless tax cuts. I got $4 a week, thanks. When the cons pushed that down Obama’s throat they knew the could roll him. And he’s caved ever since.
SClark55 Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Right, let it collapse from bureaucratic neglect instead, so the Dem’s can say they need to tax us some more..http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/amtrak-speed-control-system-installed-but-wasnt-turned-on/article/2564542
pam Miner almost 9 years ago
Why congress won’t give a cent to the upkeep of the infrastucture has to do with greed. And keeping the 1% happy.
Gerald Henley almost 9 years ago
All you LWNJ’s who keep blaming the Republicans for not wanting to spend more money, ASK Joe Biden where the stimulus money went. It was over $1 Trillion dollars that was supposed to go to infrastructure. I’m betting not even .00001% was spent on infrastructure. It went to the unions and other democratic slush funds.
You nuts need to wake up and quit drinking the democratic koolaid. Quit blaming the Republicans for wanting to be responsible with YOUR money. AND quit blaming FOX news for reporting the truth, just because you listen to MSLSD (and probably take a hit too).
lisak157 Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Yeah, because the D’s have been in power from 2007 to 2011 in the House of Reps and were in power in the Senate until 2015 and did nothing…..and a D has been in the WH since 2009 and did nothing, yet its the republicans fault…..Amtrak received stimulus money and chose to spend it on disability items vs. safety items, plus they have been fully funded……yet it’s still a republican problem. The idiots commenting that it’s a R issue on this thread are obviously too stupid to vote and therefore should not do so because they only listen to the leftist mouthpiece media and their BS. I am always so amazed at the ignorance (or stupidity) of the D’s that comment on this toon, perhaps I should just accept that you were all dropped on your heads repeatedly when you were babies and just call it a day.
DrDon1 almost 9 years ago
Too many of the above comments are not consistent with the Constitution’s aim “to promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity!”