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Grey Lemercier

(1,429 posts)
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 11:17 AM Oct 2016

Donald Trump: The American-Made Fraud

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/donald-trump-the-american_b_12419958.html


On Sept. 2, a tarp covering part of the Liberty Bridge in Pittsburgh caught fire during repair work. The flames enveloped a steel beam that buckled and nearly caused the entire 88-year-old structure to collapse. A town already racked by hard-to-navigate streets and limited access into downtown was then thrown into mass chaos for more than three weeks while the bridge was closed and workers frantically fixed the damage.

The reopening was delayed multiple times, and the construction company was fined $8,400 each hour the span remained closed. By the time the bridge finally opened, the penalty had reached over $5 million, not to mention the unknown cost of Yinzer (A.K.A. Pittsburgher) angst and fury.

This whole situation not only epitomizes the disaster that is America’s aging and disintegrating infrastructure, but it also symbolizes the horror of a possible Donald Trump presidency.

Trump says he’s going to make America a country that makes things again and those things will be used to rebuild what he calls the nation’s “horrible, horrible third-world” infrastructure. The problem is that his infrastructure improvement plan, like his economic restoration plan and all of his other so-called plans, is a giant fail.


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Donald Trump: The American-Made Fraud (Original Post) Grey Lemercier Oct 2016 OP
Donald is probably the only thing associated with the Trump campaign TexasTowelie Oct 2016 #1

TexasTowelie

(111,322 posts)
1. Donald is probably the only thing associated with the Trump campaign
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 11:20 AM
Oct 2016

that was made in America.

Special note: I did not call him a person.

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