Should we be using band aid fixes to repair our infrastructure in America?

I think that most people this morning in San Francisco and Oakland would say no after a 5,000 pound piece of steel fell onto the lower deck of the bridge yesterday.

There were only two cars that hit the piece of steel and no one was injured. The real miracle was that no one was killed during the incident.

After the bridge was closed it took hours to clear the vehicles trapped on the bridge. This is one area of the country that really needs to think about new bridge construction or mass transit to transport people from one side of the bay to the other.

Think about it, the bridge is 73 years old for heavens sake. After this many years of continuous use by the public the old girl has just about served her time.

This however is only the tip of the ice burg when it comes to our infrastructure problems in America.

Road conditions are far better now than they were before the Interstate Highway System was begun by President Eisenhower. I have read that when President Eisenhower drove across the country in 1918 it took 73 days for the trip and in places there were only dirt trails with washed out bridges.

The kicker here is that it’s no longer 1918 and the millions of cars on the road demand that our infrastructure accommodate them.

I personally think that we should demand that public transportation be made more available so the need for these vehicles are limited. This would provide many more jobs than the car factories and maybe even help our environment which we are destroying for our grand children.

Can our government handle this? I am not so sure, it almost seems that we have been taken over by people who want to give away everything that we have worked so hard for since the Revolutionary War.

Should everything be free? If so we would all starve to death because sooner or later the farmers would catch the on and refuse to work.

No it is going to cost us big time to rebuild the infrastructure of this country and we will all have to go to work. Those who are good for nothing except to drain the system of it’s resources should pick up their cheese, corn meal and flour from the local food bank for free.

What we should not allow to happen is make it possible for those who refuse to work to be able to spend any of the governments money on any type of luxury food item, wine or etc. What is our country coming to when we have good for nothings and drug heads laying around just having babies. Wow and what do we do about those innocents, we need divine intervention.

Oh well I guess I always get a little worked up, but we have a lot of work to do to our wonderful country and it is about time that we have some leadership with their heads screwed on correctly to get started. Oh for another Dwight David Eisenhower.

Just my opinion.

Joe