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America's infrastructure as a whole seems to be on the verge of collapse. Our electrical grids are decades old and cannot support the number of people we now h
by thomascgalvin 7y ago
America's infrastructure as a whole seems to be on the verge of collapse.
Our electrical grids are decades old and cannot support the number of people we now have, nor their increasing power demands. Our roads are cracking, and our bridges are crumbling. In the few locations we do have trains, they're old, diesel-powered, and poorly maintained.
As a nation, we steadfastly refuse to invest in boring-but-necessary things that would dramatically improve the lives of average people.
- minikites 7y agoIt's because those thing require taxes, and taxes are evil/theft/waste.
- shuckles 7y agoMaybe that we get 10x less infrastructure for every dollar spent has something to do with it.
- danudey 7y agoWe can't afford to fix infrastructure, we blew it all on tax breaks for the super-rich, who are spending it all on buying private islands for when the society they ruined inevitably collapses.
- crmrc114 7y agoWater, no one is (well, some are) talking about water. I have worked in that part of the industry on the industrial controls side. I can tell you that the problems we are seeing with power are right in line with the issues we are seeing in water and sewer. We really need to reinvest in public infrastructure.
- Iwan-Zotow 7y agoHouse passes ‘progressive’ defense bill, $738 billion for the Pentagon.