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Skriven 2007-08-04 20:39:00 av ROSS SAUER
     Kommentar till en text av ROSS CASSELL
Ärende: bridge collapse
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ROSS CASSELL said to ROSS SAUER...

RC> RS> Maybe if all those $$$ for Bush's fiasco in Iraq were diverted
RC> RS> to repairing bridges, public works like sewers and steam pipes,
RC> RS> those big  fat tax cuts to the filthy rich was stopped, and all
RC> RS> the $$$ that go to pork like Ted Stevens' "bridge to nowhere"
RC> RS> was ended also, it would be a good start.

RC>Shouda, couda, wouda..

RC>But hey, I aint rich and I got a tax cut..

How much?

RC>I remember discussing the taxcut back then, I remember all the
RC>liberals telling me in the Summer of 2001 on how *I* didnt need that
RC>rebate or the reduction in my fed taxes. As if their liberalness
RC>endowed them with the ability to decide what monies people need or
RC>should have. Since you live on a entitlement program concocted by
RC>liberals, you above all should know that they were terribly wrong
RC>about that, since that check isnt anything to write home about.

This has *ZERO* to do with the issue.
Now quit trying to divert.

RC>However, you know the political process, we could have never had a
RC>GWB, thus no Iraq, and the bridge collapse, burst steam pipes would
RC>have still happened..

I know that.

Unlike you, I'm not letting *ANYONE* off the hook.

RC>Politicians dont throw money at a problem such as this until someting
RC>actually breaks. Case in point, 9-11, it took that event for the feds
RC>to realize that they needed to increase airport security, maybe throw
RC>in a few air marshalls?

Which has turned out to be one colossal BOTCH.
Confiscating bottles of shampoo, while testers get through the 
"security" over and over, with simulated bombs and real guns.

RC>How many courthouse shootings did we have until they realized, hey
RC>lets install metal detectors?

Too many.

RC>In our nation, when govts at all levels award contracts to the lowest
RC>bidder, we inevitably get what we paid for. You want cheap, you get
RC>cheap.

Also it has a lot to do with one of your gurus, Grover Norquist, the 
"drown them in the bathtub" approach to government.

RC>I say this in context here, because it blows my mind,,, I have been
RC>down here in SC for 20 years now, if you look at a map of my state
RC>and city, you will see that Spartanburg SC is located along
RC>interstate 85, Spartanburg is 30 miles up I-85 from Greenville SC.
RC>Ever since I have been here and to this day, there is some sort of
RC>construction going on on that stretch of the Interstate. Gee hire
RC>someone to do it right the first time and take down them barriers!

And find a way to get the $$$ away from all those corrupt bastards in 
Iraq like Halliburton, and back to this country where it's needed.
But since the Coward-In-Chief is STILL throwing around "Terror! Terror! 
Terror! Fear! Fear! Fear!" to try to divert from the absolute FAILURE 
that is in Iraq, that money will still continue to go to those 
contractors.
("Iraq For Sale," a documentary about that contractor corruption.)

BTW, Bush has just promised to do "all it takes" to rebuild that bridge.

It'll be just like his previous empty promise, in New Orleans.

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