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Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 11/29/2006 4:54:38 PM

Chaingang

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"Blasting American Infrastructure Away"
By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. Posted November 29, 2006.
http://www.alternet.org/story/44851/

Any homeowner knows that if you ignore a leaking roof, you'll soon find your ceiling buckling, sheetrock crumbling, paint peeling, studs rotting… and a world of misery. The same is true of our national house, and the decay is increasingly obvious and ominous.

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As a rule I really like Hightower's comments. I think he nails this stuff completely.

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 11/29/2006 5:23:53 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Chaingang

"Blasting American Infrastructure Away"
By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. Posted November 29, 2006.
http://www.alternet.org/story/44851/

Any homeowner knows that if you ignore a leaking roof, you'll soon find your ceiling buckling, sheetrock crumbling, paint peeling, studs rotting… and a world of misery. The same is true of our national house, and the decay is increasingly obvious and ominous.

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As a rule I really like Hightower's comments. I think he nails this stuff completely.

What do we expect? We've had a slumlord for the past 6 years.

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 11/29/2006 9:04:41 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Chaingang

"Blasting American Infrastructure Away"
By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. Posted November 29, 2006.
http://www.alternet.org/story/44851/

Any homeowner knows that if you ignore a leaking roof, you'll soon find your ceiling buckling, sheetrock crumbling, paint peeling, studs rotting… and a world of misery. The same is true of our national house, and the decay is increasingly obvious and ominous.

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As a rule I really like Hightower's comments. I think he nails this stuff completely.

I also like Hightower and generally think he's right on the money.

I'm not sure if you've seen this.....but the Larouche people have drawn-up a brilliant recovery plan to rebuild our infrastructure and put some Americans back to work with high paying jobs. I've read this from top to bottom and really like their plan. They've even detailed how to finance it.

www.larouchepac.com/pdf_files/060518_recovery_act

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 11/30/2006 7:18:21 AM

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i agree.

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 11/30/2006 7:44:20 AM

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Well many of you Yanks think that Free Enterprise is the answer to everything....dont you?

Simple and blinding obvious bit of sleight of hand in the article "proving" that public expenditure has been cut by one third since the 1950's
3% of GDP in the 1950's to 1970s
is almost certainly a lot LESS than
2% of GDP now. isn't it ?

Mind you the opposite of Free Enterprise produces the commisars we have in the UK. One of their aims is to bring our already weakened real economy to a halt by ever more complex human rights legislation and restrictions to stop Global Warming.
Since we only produce 2% of the world total of Carbon emissions they clearly cant possibly succeed but that wont stop them....will it ?

This presuppose that Global Warming really is caused by human activity....which is NOT proven...is it ?

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 11/30/2006 8:45:05 AM

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Seeks, that makes me want to go out and burn a big piles of tires. (tyres)

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 11/30/2006 10:39:04 AM

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Well Ok Popeye you do it...I just hope it doesn't tyre (tire) you out !

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 11/30/2006 11:22:50 AM

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ORIGINAL: LotusSong

quote:

ORIGINAL: Chaingang

"Blasting American Infrastructure Away"
By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. Posted November 29, 2006.
http://www.alternet.org/story/44851/

Any homeowner knows that if you ignore a leaking roof, you'll soon find your ceiling buckling, sheetrock crumbling, paint peeling, studs rotting… and a world of misery. The same is true of our national house, and the decay is increasingly obvious and ominous.

---

As a rule I really like Hightower's comments. I think he nails this stuff completely.

What do we expect? We've had a slumlord for the past 6 years.

How can you only blame Bush for the state of our nation?

It's Washington, if you go there you learn to serve only yourself - politicians from every viewpoint, affiliation, party, and gender has been doing it for decades.

Bush is only the latest President that has been screwing this country up - the last 10 have been messing things up for decades.

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 11/30/2006 11:41:55 AM

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well- take fro instance the electric grid. do you trust it?

would you have open heart surgery if that hospital did not have its own generator?

despite black outs on both coasts and new legislation. nothing is being done.

we have heard all teh excuses. bend over taxpayer rate payer= up the azz it goes.

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 11/30/2006 9:32:40 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Chaingang

"Blasting American Infrastructure Away"
By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. Posted November 29, 2006.
http://www.alternet.org/story/44851/

Any homeowner knows that if you ignore a leaking roof, you'll soon find your ceiling buckling, sheetrock crumbling, paint peeling, studs rotting… and a world of misery. The same is true of our national house, and the decay is increasingly obvious and ominous.

As a rule I really like Hightower's comments. I think he nails this stuff completely.

Hey... the elite need that 419.3 billion in the defense budget to fight off all those fabricated, big, bad boogeymen all over the globe.

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 12/1/2006 1:45:41 AM

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speaking of infrastructue, many times it seems it gets destroyed and not replaced....such is the case with an old railbridge that went into the beautiful town of Newport, RI, which has been blasted away, and now are forced to travel by road to get there.....its a shame.

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 12/1/2006 4:46:55 AM

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ORIGINAL: ToGiveDivine

How can you only blame Bush for the state of our nation?

It's Washington, if you go there you learn to serve only yourself - politicians from every viewpoint, affiliation, party, and gender has been doing it for decades.

Bush is only the latest President that has been screwing this country up - the last 10 have been messing things up for decades.

But..but.....but.. HE told us HE was the "Decider"!!! You would think that he would have paid attention to the past. The only thing good he's done is destroyed the Bush Dynasty for any aspiring presidents that have popped out of momma Bush.

Bush is a tush... face it.

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 12/1/2006 4:49:00 AM

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well- take fro instance the electric grid. do you trust it?

would you have open heart surgery if that hospital did not have its own generator?

despite black outs on both coasts and new legislation. nothing is being done.

we have heard all teh excuses. bend over taxpayer rate payer= up the azz it goes.

Or we can continue doing what Bush does.. sell off chunks of America to foreign countries. I will GLADLY pay takes to keep from having to pimp the US

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 12/1/2006 5:30:25 AM

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Not that i'm a big dubya fan, but a lot of the stuff they mentioned isn't a federal responsibility, it's state, and some of it is private. State taxes aren't going down any faster than federal ones, but everybody wants to blame the president.

And LaRouche? Seriously?

...dave

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RE: Blasting American Infrastructure Away - 12/1/2006 11:18:37 AM

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I'd just like the next President to focus on the U.S. for once unlike the last three Presidents.
The job title isn't "President of the World."
If they're flying over water it better be the Mississippi River or the Great Lakes.

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