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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 08:58 AM Original message |
Report: Nation's Infrastructure Crumbling (falls from D+ to a big fat D) |
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Stand and Fight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 09:03 AM Response to Original message |
1. Put two and two together... |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 09:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Is it really in the rich people's self-interest |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 09:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. They aren't really very far-seeing. |
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Cooley Hurd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:06 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Re: your PM |
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shantipriya (367 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 09:41 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. Rich people & Infrastructure |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:38 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Good points. |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 12:47 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. The rich have their own supply of water? . . . |
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siliconefreak (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 12:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. well, sort of... |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 01:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
25. In third-world countries, and even some higher-rated ones, they |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 12:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. No it isn't in their best interest, but they still can't stop themselves |
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oasis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 05:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
27. We might as well look like a banana republic. (eom) |
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ananda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
2. Well.. |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 09:15 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. The problem is more that almost everyone's taxes are too low |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:08 AM Response to Reply #6 |
14. no, the problem is waste, IMO |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
4. we'll all have something to do when... |
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Freedom_from_Chains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
5. Well that would comport |
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GOPBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
7. We have no money to fix infrastructure. We spend it all on the |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
8. But its pointless to invest in these things, the rapture is coming... |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
9. But the Iraqi infrastructure improves every day! |
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RT Atlanta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
12. Meanwhile... |
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leftchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:35 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. freedom isn't free.... |
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RT Atlanta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 11:19 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Then, let "them" pay for it... |
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NVMojo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
18. The white supremicists and their followers who are running the White House |
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Julius Civitatus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 05:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. IT'S PART OF THE BIG PICTURE, PEOPLE |
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BiggJawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
19. We have a "World-Class" sewer system here... |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
20. It's time for Keynes |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
24. If Al Gore had been elected |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
26. Never mind that...how those bridges and schools in Baghdad comin' along? |
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Sabriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
28. Honey, the Visigoths are here! |
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paineinthearse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
30. Take a look at the press release from the civil engineering group |
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Massacure (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
31. I read somewhere that it would cost 2 trillion dollars |
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Moderator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-10-05 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
32. kick to combine |
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chlamor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-10-05 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
33. Report: U.S. Infrastructure Deteriorating, $1.6 Trillion Needed |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-10-05 11:56 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Wasn't Bush's tax cut for the super wealthy about 1.6 trillion? |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-10-05 11:56 AM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Instead of giving our people jobs Our Money is going to Iraq |
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