Minneapolis bridge collapses

[kathykd2005]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

There's been an ongoing project near AGDee and I that has closed a stretch of I75. They've been replacing all the overpasses.... actually tearing them all down and replacing them. They did the same on our Southfield Expressway. While it is an inconvenience between taking different routes, and dealing with traffic in our neighborhoods, you really appreciate it when you see stories like this.

So it's either people flipping out, or people dying. I'd rather people flip out.

I didn't say that I wanted people to die, or that I'd flip out, I just said government will have a hard time getting all of this stuff passed, since people will flip out, and make it hard to do... There wasn't really a need to give the ultimatum of people "flipping out, or people dying."

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

...I just said government will have a hard time getting all of this stuff passed, since people will flip out, and make it hard to do...

Clearly and understatement.

We seem to want everything..but don't want to pay for any of it.

It just doesn't work that way.

[kathykd2005]

Originally Posted by DeltAlum

Clearly and understatement.

We seem to want everything..but don't want to pay for any of it.

It just doesn't work that way.

Agreed--people do want everything and don't want to pay for it. As I said earlier--several times--I would be willing to pay higher taxes for services like repairs to highways and bridges; however, others may not feel the same way. It seems those of us posting in this thread are all coming from the same place and are on the same page.

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

It seems those of us posting in this thread are all coming from the same place and are on the same page.

I wonder.

Let's take a real infomal, unscientific poll.

How many who read this thread would approve of a fairly substantial tax increase in order to replace decaying infrastructure?

I would.

[kathykd2005]

Put it up as a poll, see what happens...

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

Put it up as a poll, see what happens...

Anybody know how to do that without starting a new thread? I don't.

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by DeltAlum

I wonder.

Let's take a real infomal, unscientific poll.

How many who read this thread would approve of a fairly substantial tax increase in order to replace decaying infrastructure?

I would.

I vote for us to pull the hell out of Iraq, stop spending money on this bullshit, and use that money to pay for the decaying infrastructure. I vote to worry about our own country.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

There's been an ongoing project near AGDee and I that has closed a stretch of I75. They've been replacing all the overpasses.... actually tearing them all down and replacing them. They did the same on our Southfield Expressway. While it is an inconvenience between taking different routes, and dealing with traffic in our neighborhoods, you really appreciate it when you see stories like this.

So it's either people flipping out, or people dying. I'd rather people flip out.

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

I vote for us to pull the hell out of Iraq, stop spending money on this bullshit, and use that money to pay for the decaying infrastructure. I vote to worry about our own country.

Ok, I have to admit, that construction caused me bunches of stress. So much so, that I changed my hours to reduce the amount of traffic rage that I have to deal with on a daily basis. On top of that, every week.. every single week, some semi gets in an accident in this zone and the whole freeway has to shut down for hours and hours and, in most of the cases, someone was killed. There's got to be a safer way to go about that construction! But, I decided to stop griping about the whole thing after the bridge collapse. I just think that particular construction zone, the way it was set up, should have been CLOSED TO TRUCK TRAFFIC.

I also think that we are paying for a heck of a lot of stuff that I consider less important than the basic infrastructure. I'm not opposed to some tax increases to cover this, if I were convinced that the waste was cut from the budget first. It's not as if all of it has to be replaced immediately so the $5500 per person could be stretched out over say.. 10 years. $550 a person a year isn't that much.

[OneTimeSBX]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

I vote for us to pull the hell out of Iraq, stop spending money on this bullshit, and use that money to pay for the decaying infrastructure. I vote to worry about our own country.

AMEN!!!