John Oliver: Even a ‘total idiot’ like Donald Trump knows we need to rebuild our infrastructure [View all]
On HBO’s Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver addressed America’s crumbling infrastructure, describing it as something politicians, labor, business, and “even a total idiot” like Donald Trump agree must be replaced
Oliver began by defining our infrastructure as “Our roads, bridges, dams, levees, airports, power grids — basically anything that can be destroyed in an action movie.”
Taking up the case for dams, Oliver called them ” the most powerful device we have for holding back liquid, aside from the idea of using a porta-potty.”
He pointed out that many of the dams in the U.S. are in serious disrepair – with the average age of America’s 84,000 dams at 52 years old — with problems dating back to when they were first built.
“Much like most botox recipients and competitive cloggers,” Oliver explained. “The average dam is 52-years-old and has probably something deeply broken inside of it.”
With the American Society of Civil Engineers giving the government a D+ for infrastructure maintenance, Oliver called it “The same grade that a 10th grade teacher gives a nightmare kid so she doesn’t have to deal with him for another year.”
More here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/john-oliver-even-a-total-idiot-like-donald-trump-knows-we-need-to-rebuild-our-infrastructure/
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