Infrastructure? Forget It. GOP Is Selling It All To The Lowest Bidder.

[TheMastersNemesis]

If you think the GOP will invest in roads, bridges, water, sewer and other systems forget it. It is all for sale to the lowest bidder. They won't lift a finger as Americans drive into rivers and lakes on broken roads and bridges. Look around they plan to sell of everything. Your national parks, state parks et al will be gone too.

And the owners will probably be foreign companies based in Russia, China, India, so on and so on. McCain just gave public land to a mining company that will be on Indian sacred land.

They will be drilled, mined, polluted, etc etc etc. They plan to destroy everything. Meanwhile they will start wars and send your kids to die for the Koch's and their ilk. It will not take a military minute to bomb Iran and send divisions to the middle east.

I just don't understand why no one gets pissed and starts causing them trouble. I personally have no use for these GOPPERS. They are the threat. ISIS isn't.

[djean111]

1. Obama proposed something a bit different - but it all boils down to not wanting to spend money

on infrastructure, but enthusiastically spending money on war.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/us/politics/obama-proposes-tapping-private-investors-to-fund-infrastructure-projects.html?_r=0

Obama Proposes Tapping Private Investors to Fund Infrastructure Projects

WASHINGTON — The White House unveiled a tax proposal and administrative actions on Friday that are aimed at promoting private investment in roads, bridges, water systems and broadband networks.

The plans are an attempt to find ways to finance the vast backlog of American infrastructure projects without using any new federal money.

President Obama has repeatedly said that a broad effort to address the nation’s infrastructure needs is a potential area of agreement between his administration and the Republican Congress, although deep divisions remain on how to handle such projects.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is scheduled to discuss the plans here on Friday afternoon at the construction site of the Anacostia River Tunnel, which would handle the two billion to three billion gallons of contaminated sewage water that pour into the river each year.

One proposal that could draw bipartisan backing would create so-called qualified public infrastructure bonds that could be issued to finance airports; roads; mass transit, water and sewer systems; and other projects. They would be the first type of municipal bonds available for public-private partnerships and would be exempt from the alternative minimum tax.

[AZ Progressive]

2. I have to say though that Arizona's infrastructure seems well maintained compared to California

Arizona's roads and bridges seem to be cleaner and more modern than California. Arizona is of course is a notoriously red state.

[upaloopa]

5. Care to give examples?

I live in CA and wonder what exactly the comparison is.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Fire Sale! Everything Must Go! Sale Of The Century! Low, Low Prices! Make An Offer! No Returns! All

Sales Final!

[upaloopa]

4. Because most of our reality comes to us via

"reality" cable shows. We are given circus so we don't know Rome is burning.
IMO Hillary's email news is also part of the circus as was Ebola and NFL domestic violence. Not that these aren't important but the coverage far out shines the relevance to our society's existence.

[MiniMe]

6. I'm waiting for them to all drive into potholes

Around the Washington, DC area, the roads are full of them.