3 injured after I-5 bridge collapses

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/injured-bri...ry?id=19246839

We've been getting repeated warnings for years about how ty the infrastructure of this country has gotten, in particular how many bridges are "structurally deficient" like this one was. I can't wait to hear about how smaller government and decreased government spending is what'll solve the infrastructure problem.

being a 1st world country with a 3rd world infrastructure
maybe we should pray that the bridge fixes itself

[Blake]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/injured-bri...ry?id=19246839

maybe we should pray that the bridge fixes itself

Jesus needs to put dem carpenter skills to good use

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Jesus needs to put dem carpenter skills to good use

Hopefully he's able to duplicate bridges that properly function the same way he duplicated fish and bread

[Blake]

Come to think, Jesus don't need no bridge to walk over water.

1st century mus seed faith > 20th century bridge

[Ignignokt]

I don't see what's the point of this thread. Are you saying that we don't spend enough as a govt? does 16trillion in debt mean we don't have a govt that's big enough?

[LnGrrrR]

Quick DoK, make a "Was the collapse of the I-5 bridge engineered by the US govt?" thread. Guaranteed that mouse, Che and SA will affirm it.

[Ignignokt]

Also, Neither Jesus nor Secular Liberal Cuck Snark can fix the bridges, do any of you guys have solutions?

[LnGrrrR]

I don't see what's the point of this thread. Are you saying that we don't spend enough as a govt? does 16trillion in debt mean we don't have a govt that's big enough?

Obviously Ig thinks that fixing bridges is something only dirty commies would support.

[Ignignokt]

Obviously Ig thinks that fixing bridges is something only dirty commies would support.

so if we have 16 trillion dollars in debt, do we need to go 20 trillion dollars in debt to fix bridges? In your world are there only Jesus freaks and Progressives? Fox and MSNBC??

[Ignignokt]

I mean, i don't even see how this snarky humor is remotely funny. I mean if you have aspies and you're an economic ignoramus, i can see how you could eat this up.

[Rick Santorum]

building and maintaining infrastructure is one of few tasks government should actually have the power to do, maybe if they weren't so obsessed with dominating the american people 1984 style and sticking their hands down our pants at the airport they could focus on government is supposed to focus on like our bridges imho.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

I don't see what's the point of this thread. Are you saying that we don't spend enough as a govt? does 16trillion in debt mean we don't have a govt that's big enough?

I think we don't spend enough on the right things. The trillions of dollars we spend rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan would have been much better used rebuilding America.

[Ignignokt]

building and maintaining infrastructure is one of few tasks government should actually have the power to do, maybe if they weren't so obsessed with dominating the american people 1984 style and sticking their hands down our pants at the airport they could focus on government is supposed to focus on like our bridges imho.

No it's not. But I'll make concessions, and if govt had to have services besides defense and law, i would say infrastructure would be one of the most important. But the dumbasses in this thread think we need to spend more money to fix infrastructure, when we have no money to spend. IF you want to do it that way, then you should cut alot of govt excess and then fund these little shovel ready projects.

[Ignignokt]

I think we don't spend enough on the right things. The trillions of dollars we spend rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan would have been much better used rebuilding America.

Cool, so we slash 7% of the budget (WOT expenditures) and redirect it towards infrastructure. Now we'll have a beautiful bridge where everyone can drive to and from the unemployment office and we'll celebrate our still crippling debt and dimininishing purchasing power because of it (the debt) by having cool daddy bridges!!

[Ignignokt]

I mean, you know what you sound like?

Like this.

Hey wad conservatives, if we're going to up our country with massive debt, atleast grow it some more so we can have spiffy bridges brah!

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Cool, so we slash 7% of the budget and redirected towards infrastructure. Now we'll have a beautiful bridge where everyone can drive to and from the unemployment office and we'll celebrate are still crippling debt and dimininishing purchasing power because of it by having cool daddy bridges!!

thinking our excess military spending is only 7% of the budget

So what should we do when bridges start collapsing, tbh?

[Ignignokt]

thinking our excess military spending is only 7% of the budget

So what should we do when bridges start collapsing, tbh?

You mentioned the iraq and afghanistan war, they're not anywhere near the biggest part of our expenditures. Without vet benefits and pay, our budget for military spending is 18%. It's discretionary and en lement spending which is growing at the fastest rate and contributes more to it.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

I mean, you know what you sound like?

Like this.

I really don't care how spiffy the bridges are, I just care about them functioning properly (but you already knew that). I also care about other infrastructure problems.

Conservatives also seemed to celebrate the crippling debt plenty from 2001-2008.

[Ignignokt]

I mean, you already know this, but instead you go back to your tribalistic secular liberal reflexes.

[Ignignokt]

Conservatives also seemed to celebrate the crippling debt plenty from 2001-2008.

Well yeah, those conservatives. To retaliate, the liberals should show em' up and reveal to the country what real ed up bloated govt looks like!! Muricka!!!!

[Ignignokt]

This is the option alot of repugs and all Democrats have given us.


1. Balanced Budget

2. 'Murica!

You can only have one.

And this thread is damn good proof of it.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

You mentioned the iraq and afghanistan war, they're not anywhere near the biggest part of our expenditures. Without vet benefits and pay, our budget for military spending is 18%. It's discretionary and en lement spending which is growing at the fastest rate and contributes more to it.

Yeah and it's not like I think those don't need to addressed too, just that the 1,000+ international military bases we have are some of the easiest cuts to make. 18% of our expenditures is also a pretty big amount when you look at how much other modern countries spend on defense.

I also think addressing infrastructure with one-time expenditures is OK now given how low the cost of issuing debt currently is. Issuing debt for one-time expenditures on infrastructure doesn't led to long term deficit problems with the interest on the debt is as low as it currently is, issuing debt to pay recurring costs is the issue.

[baseline bum]

You mentioned the iraq and afghanistan war, they're not anywhere near the biggest part of our expenditures. Without vet benefits and pay, our budget for military spending is 18%. It's discretionary and en lement spending which is growing at the fastest rate and contributes more to it.

What is it with veterans' benefits and pay?

[LnGrrrR]

so if we have 16 trillion dollars in debt, do we need to go 20 trillion dollars in debt to fix bridges? In your world are there only Jesus freaks and Progressives? Fox and MSNBC??

Youre right, it's much better not to fix bridges and to have the economy lose a ton of money when those bridges collapse.

Oh and 4 trillion to fix bridges.

[Rick Santorum]

Youre right, it's much better not to fix bridges and to have the economy lose a ton of money when those bridges collapse.

Oh and 4 trillion to fix bridges.

Don't you have some rich oil tycoons to suck?