Rebuilding America's Infrastructure

[bobabode]

'As President Trump pledges to invest in rebuilding the country, we look at infrastructure far and wide.' PM

"In the wee hours of the night, as November 8 turned into November 9 and a bitter campaign finally reached a conclusion, Donald Trump took to the stage to claim victory. After his thank-yous, the new President-elect vowed: "We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We're going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none. And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it."

"In 2008—what now feels like a lifetime ago—Popular Mechanics put out an issue with Rebuilding America as it cover story, calling upon the country to finally flex its muscle and take on all those decaying schools and roads and bridges. With Trump swinging into power on a promise to fix infrastructure with a trillion-dollar investment over 10 years, it's time to pick up that tagline again.

This is Rebuilding America week on the website. We'll be looking at the legacy of the New Deal and FDR's attempt to save the country from the Depression by employing Americans to build up the nation. We'll be looking at the rebuilding of our nation's Capitol, the incredible ships that build offshore wind farms, and the one thing in every state that must be fixed now.

Will this time be different? It depends upon whether a candidate who promised to build a wall can become a president who follows through on rebuilding a country." Popular Mechanics

http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...-america-week/
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The question is will the Republican led congress (since 2010) finally get off their butts and fund it?

[donquixote99]

The question is will the Republican led congress (since 2010) finally get off their butts and fund it?

No. Last I heard the plan was private funding leading to private ownership. Probably lots of unobtrusive electronic gadgets to hit your debit card everywhere you go.

Better have a valid debit card if a cop stops you....

[bobabode]

"FDR's dedication to infrastructure saved America once. Could it happen again?"

"Franklin Delano Roosevelt's dedication to U.S. infrastructure, a "new deal for the American people" as he described it, united the United States of America.
Roads were built where there once was only dirt. Bridges connected lands that were once separated. Airports and runways made people airborne. Power lines brought light where there once was only darkness after sunset. And most importantly, the unemployed were once again hard at work. It was the greatest infrastructure project in this country's history, the likes of which we'll never see again.

"It's all falling into ruin now because we decided we didn't have to maintain it," says Gray Brechin, geographer and founder of the online archive The Living New Deal, "Thank god, they built it all as well as they did."
During the recent presidential campaign, President Donald Trump made a promise to reinvest in America's infrastructure. In fact, the topic was one of the few pieces of actual policy mentioned during his victory speech. But even the trillion dollars he's pledged would only partially make up the gap to get to $3.6 trillion—that's what the American Society of Civil Engineers estimated in 2013 would be needed by 2020 to rebuild America.
As this new administration takes office, it's worth looking back at the last time American infrastructure saved the country." PM

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[Rajoo]

Private funding and toll roads is what I have read as being discussed in the very first weekend if I may add. I am certain that Trump's offspring's will have first dibs on this.

[donquixote99]

Infrastructure under FDR didn't hurt, but it didn't 'save the country.' Real recovery came with the WWII buildup..

Of course, Trump may have that in mind as well....

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

No. Last I heard the plan was private funding leading to private ownership. Probably lots of unobtrusive electronic gadgets to hit your debit card everywhere you go.

Better have a valid debit card if a cop stops you....

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Private funding and toll roads is what I have read as being discussed in the very first weekend if I may add. I am certain that Trump's offspring's will have first dibs on this.

Damn Democrats, why can't you be like FDR?

Oh, wait...

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Damn Democrats, why can't you be like FDR?

Because they all turned into Republicans after the 1972 election, that's why.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Because they all turned into Republicans after the 1972 election, that's why.

Horseshit. You can't serve unless you're in office.

[bobabode]

Furthermore, I seem to recall a certain Republican that wasn't half bad.
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php...=false&doc=88#

So, put that in your pipe and smoke it, TJ.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Infrastructure under FDR didn't hurt, but it didn't 'save the country.' Real recovery came with the WWII buildup..

Of course, Trump may have that in mind as well....

And there is a different dimension to modern infrastructure building...the non use of manual labor is stark.