News Article: Seattle: I-5 bridge over Skagit River collapses, cars with people in water
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As far as I can tell so far, no fatalities reported, though rescue efforts are ongoing and I don't believe everyone who went in the river's been accounted for. Sidebar: fully expecting this to be blamed on sequestration by an opportunistic politician and/or pundit at some point in the future (infrastructure neglect).
Of course they will. Any party that can politicize the deaths of children from a tornado within minutes of the event to promote global warming legislation will clearly have no problem forwarding strawmen here.
Sorry, but infrastructure neglect is an indisputable, demonstable fact, not a partisan issue. If government is good for noting else, it's got to be good for that, or we've reverted to pre-Roman ages. (They did a damn good jobs with highways and bridges.)
I seem to remember almost a trillion dollars supposedly being set aside just for infrastructure projects, instead it was spent mostly on a bunch of Democrat pet projects. I then remember someone making a joke about shovel ready jobs not being so shovel ready.
I think if you required able bodied people to work on roads, buildings, parks, etc repair and maintenance as a condition of unemployment, 3 days/week, we would see unemployment rates improve quickly, and see our infrastructure improve.
Agreed 100% with everything above. But you would have a hard time convincing me that this particular bridge, which was deemed "structurally deficient" by 1992, and "functionally obsolete" by 2000, collapsed because of the recent sequestration. You would have to demonstrate the funds which had been budgeted for upgrade and repair of this specific bridge which no longer were budgeted for that purpose due to sequestration. You would also have to demonstrate that said upgrade and repairs could have been completed in the period between the sequester and the collapse.
Logic should prevail? Lol....
Are you going fishing with The Beaver after you take Marcia to the prom?
Jk
You don't seriously expect the targets of this type of demagoguery to be able string together that number of rational thoughts, and understand their causal relationships, do you?
I fully expect Democrats to just say, "It's Bush's fault." This statement has fewer words and is easier for their constituents to understand.
I'm not sure why the State of Washington did not repair their bridge.
James Madison said:
You're half right as this IS because of infrastructure neglect but nothing to do with the sequester.
I wonder if the billions diverted to building "bridges to nowhere" would have been better utilized to building/repair "bridges that people actually use."
I guess the real question is what was the state of Washington spending all their highway dollars allocated to them by the DOT? I'm not sure this is so much a federal issue as it is a state issue and how they allocated the federal monies given to them to maintain their roads.
WRT infrastructure dollars, lots of times maintenance and repair, especially when not "critical", takes a back seat to shiny new projects.
Since many others are rated worse, I guess they had other projects to address first.
Authorities are saying it had nothing to do with infrastructure neglect. Truck hit a span:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/24/highway-bridge-collapses-in-washington-state-people-in-water/
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/24/highway-bridge-collapses-in-washington-state-people-in-water/
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