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Collapsing Infrastructure Recipe for Disaster
this legislative body
The result is an inexcusable
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has been to keep drop in maintenance, even as
our national house our population has expanded
Train That
in good repair. That dramatically and the wear and
requires tending to tear on all parts o f the infra-
Won’t
roads, bridges, rail structure has created disasters-
by
J im H ightower
I love groups with the gump-
tion to take on big tasks and do
what needs to be done— can-
do groups that can, and do.
But, uh-oh, here comes The
Little Tram ThatCouldn’t. I’m
talking about Congress.
Smce the earliest days o f our
US ofA , the most basic task o f
systems, airports,
school buildings, parks, internet
access, etc.
Yet, with a toxic mix o f anti-
government ideology and fiscal
foolishness, Republican mem-
bers of Congress have recently
been blocking every serious pro-
posalto reinvest in A m erica’s
coUapsinginfrastnicture.
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wasapenny-pinchingRepubli-
can, Bob Corker o f Tennessee,
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Indeed, it w asn’t that long ago
that most Republicans under-
stood and funded infrastructure
— from Abe Lincoln to Teddy
R o o s e v e lt
to
D w ig h t
Eisenhower, and even Ronald
Reagan, who called such com-
mon sense maintenance “an in-
vestment in tomorrow that we
must make today.”
Gail Collins, the superbly sen-
sible New York Times colum-
nist, recently noted that, “In a
perfect world, Congress would
figure out a serious, long-term
plan to fix bridges, (etc.).” Yes,
but I would amend her observa­
tion with this: Itshouldn’ttake “a
perfect world” — even a Con-
gnessinahalfway-mediocre world
ought to be able to do that job.
Actually, thanks to GOP ob­
stinacy, Congress isn ’ t the Little
Train That Couldn’t It’sthechoo-
choo that could, but won ’ t.
OtherWords columnist Jim
Hightower is a radio commen­
tator, w riter, a n d p u b lic
speaker. He 'salso editor o f the
p o p u lis t n ew sletter, The
H ig h to w e r
L ow dow n.
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