By now many of you may have seen the bridge collapse in Minneapolis. I'm heartsick over it and scared about the bridges I drive over daily. No cause can be determined yet of course but this should be a wakeup call to us all -- much of our transportation infrastructure dates back to the 1950s and 1960s, a fair bit from WPA projects from the 1930s -- heck some like the Brooklyn Bridge dates back to the 19th Century.
We are all at risk due to our aging infrastructure. We have not put major dollars into repairing our roads, bridges, tunnels, trains and mass transit since the Interstate Highway System was mostly complete in the 1970s. Just today it came out that the Feds are rejecting the Virginia Metrorail expansion to Dulles Airport as "too expensive".
We need fewer tax breaks for Grover Norquist and his crowd and of course less money spent on crazy wars without end. We need to come home and rebuild our crumbling country. I swear to god I do not want to see any more bodies sacrificed to the altar of low taxes because we're too cheap to keep our bridges safe.