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Originally posted by FirstCasualty
Wouldn't that have been something...
Instead of giving trillions of dollars to self centered banks and cross your fingers for a "trickle down," Imagine trillions of dollars spent on failing infrastructure and GUARANTEED trickle UP.
Don't anyone do anything that makes sense though. Might frighten the old people that have spent there whole lives dealing with this psychotic BS.
Originally posted by buster2010
Originally posted by Sankari
Originally posted by sean
The government knows all these bridges are long overdue for inspections, maintenance, repair and replacement. we're to busy fighting wars and giving money away.
Responsibility for local infrastructure surely falls to state government, not federal?
That depends on the highway. This was a state highway so upkeep for it falls to the state.
Originally posted by roadgravel
Federal fuel tax
The United States Highway Trust Fund is a transportation fund which receives money from a federal fuel tax of 18.3 cents per gallon on gasoline and 24.4 cents per gallon of diesel fuel and related excise taxes.
It currently has three accounts, the Highway Account which funds road construction, a smaller 'Mass Transit Account' which supports mass transit and also a 'Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund'. It was established 1956 to finance the United States Interstate Highway System and certain other roads. The Mass Transit Fund was created in 1982. The federal tax on motor fuels yielded $28.2 billion in 2006.
History
Prior to the 1956 Highway Revenue Act and the establishment of the Highway Trust Fund roads were financed directly from the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury. The 1956 Act directed federal fuel tax to the fund to be used exclusively for highway construction and maintenance. The Highway Revenue Act mandated a tax of three cents per gallon. The original Highway Revenue Act was set to expire at the end of fiscal year 1972. In the 1950s the gas tax was increased to four cents.
The 1982 Surface Transportation Assistance Act, approved by President Ronald Reagan in January 1983, increased the tax to nine cents with one cent going into a new Mass Transit Account to support public transport.
In 1990 the gas tax was increased by President George H. W. Bush with the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to 14 cents - with 2.5 cents of the increase going to the Highway Fund and the other 2.5 cents going towards deficit reduction.
In 1993 President Clinton increased the gas tax to 18.4 cents with the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 with all of the increase going towards deficit reduction. The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 redirected the 1993 increase to the Fund.
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by g146541
reply to post by MidnightTide
A couple of years back, the Sacramento Bee (the biggest paper in the valley, that crushed the competition) ran an article on the state of bridges in the state.
There is a bridge on I-80 that crosses the sacramento river.
It is A HUGE ONE 3 or 4 lanes each way and very high, it had I believe 600 cracks in the structure, that still have not been fixed.
This will make wonderful horrible headlines someday.
If only folks were not greedy in their positions and actually worked for the people and fixed the infrastructure before lives were lost...
Maybe the next officials after the coming revolution will take their jobs seriously.
Scientists consider Sacramento — which sits at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers and near the delta — the most flood-prone city in the nation. Experts warn that there are two events that could destroy the levees and set off a megaflood. One is an earthquake; the second is a violent Pacific superstorm, like the one called the Pineapple Express, which sweeps water off the ocean around Hawaii and dumps it on the mainland with firehose intensity while battering the coast with high wind and waves. A megaflood would not arrive as gradual seepage; it would be a rapid submerging of hundreds of square miles. Salt water would be sucked from the bay (in what is known as the big gulp) and impelled into the delta, contaminating drinking supplies for 25 million people, destroying some of the nation’s most productive farmland, washing away buildings, highways, gas lines and railroads and causing landslides. A flood in the delta could sink downtown Sacramento under as much as 20 feet of water, as well as cripple California (the eighth-largest economy in the world), hobble the nation and disrupt global trade.
Originally posted by winofiend
Has anyone checked to see if HAARP was turned on?
I bet you there is something fishy going on. Coincidence? Bridges falling just after the recent events?
Something is definitely not right with this.
Originally posted by roadgravel
reply to post by winofiend
Little or no maintenance on the highway infrastructure.
Has anyone checked to see if HAARP was turned on?
I bet you there is something fishy going on. Coincidence? Bridges falling just after the recent events?
Something is definitely not right with this.
Originally posted by Cito
oh lord what's next?
I guess people will start blaming Mothman
hehe
Originally posted by fleabit
Has anyone checked to see if HAARP was turned on?
I bet you there is something fishy going on. Coincidence? Bridges falling just after the recent events?
Something is definitely not right with this.
HAARP?
What a diabolical superweapon HAARP must be! It can knock down buildings and now bridges, heat up the atmosphere, shoot down planes, cause earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes, create holograms, and who knows what else! I don't even know why we need a standing army or weapons of war. We have HAARP!
The world is a huge place. There are a heck of a lot of bridges, and some do collapse. This was a small bridge, and a truck hit a support beam. Not every single event on the planet is a conspiracy, as much as that will disappoint some of you.
Every single day on this planet there is war, explosions, earthquakes, and weird accidents. Big planet.. lots going on.. not everything has a sinister agenda behind it.
Originally posted by Cito
oh lord what's next?
I guess people will start blaming Mothman
hehe
Originally posted by Moshpet
That infrastructure bill, the GOP filibustered, might of kept that from happening....
Infrastructure funds, build the economy, and return funds back to the state and federal governments. Not to mention it pays off in the short term, medium and long terms as the money keeps accruing. Which is to say it would help to pay down national debt too. Not to mention helping to drop the unemployment rates, put money in the hands of consumers and grow businesses as well.
So, think we can hit the GOP in the head with this and make them wake up?
Originally posted by westcoast
reply to post by llmacgregor
Okay....I am not posting this on FB or anything, but this IS a conspiracy website. So here you go:
This bridge has been there since 1955. It is a main I5 corridor. What are the odds that a semi is going to hit and collapse it??? Plus, going into memorial weekend, literally cutting off the main artery into Canada.
I would think State Patrol would be on high alert for anything in similar, strategic locations.