Rick Perlstein coins the term to describe the price we're all paying for 30 years of Republican tax cuts. The explosion in New York this week that killed one person and sent the city into panic was the result of crumbling infrastructure nearly a century old.
The mayor said, "'There is no reason to believe whatsoever that this is anything other than a failure of our infrastructure,' [Mayor Bloomberg] said of the 24-inch steam pipe installed in 1924."
What a relief, it's not terrorism! It's just walls exploding around us because we decided to elect leaders who favor tax cuts for rich people over paying the dues to live in a developed country.
Perlstein says the American Society of Civil Engineers estimates we need to spend $1.6 trillion on instrastructure repairs over the next five years to catch up on the lack of investment we've been making in things like roads, bridges, sewer lines and water mains.
So how'd you spend your $300 from Bush's tax cut?
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And now we have a bridge collapse in Minnesota -- further failure to maintain the infrastructure? Seems like it.
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