The rupture of the 150 year old steam pipe in New York is an example of our failure to address the replacement of the aging infrastructure in our country. This is an issue I raised in my book where I sighted one survey that believes we have over a Trillion Dollars of needed repair or replacement of the major infrastructure in America.
YES, before someone tells me that this issue has existed long before GWB became President I will stipulate to that fact. The issue is Bush has wasted about as much on the Iraq war as the estimate I sighted said it would take to deal with the infrastructure in the United States. Again before someone tells me it is not the responsibility of government to replace these types of things then please tell me WHO should replace these essential elements of our country? The States, Cities nor private sources are replacing this infrastructure. When things like the steam pipe fail, they MUST be repaired or replaced. Some of the items in need of work would require years to fix and I wonder what will happen when a major system fails in a large city which would make living in that city impossible for an extended period of time. What would happen if a dam burst and destroyed communities in the path of the water? What if a major bridge failed that was essential for people to get to work or for the shipment of everything the effected community needed to exist?
The kinds of things we are ignoring include steam, water and sewer pipes, dams and bridges. The electrical grid in some locations needs work. To have spent what will most likely be a Trillion Dollars in Iraq and ignore the infrastructure repairs in America demonstrates the total lack of priorities shown by Bush. He attacks a country that presented NO DANGER to us while ignoring ESENTIAL facilities that enable people to live! Other presidents have also ignored the infrastructure but they did not waste a Trillion dollars that could have been used to rebuild and or repair these essential facilities.