Alleged Native American princess Elizabeth Warren starred in a campaign ad suggesting American be a little more like China and invest more in our infrastructure:
According to Warren, we clearly need to be more like China. There’s just one problem with that:
Three people were killed and five injured when an eight-lane suspension bridge in northeast China collapsed early on Friday, only nine months after it opened, state media said.
The bridge, part of an airport expressway in Harbin city, only opened last November after two years of construction that cost 1.9 billion yuan ($300 million), China News Service reported.
A 320-foot section broke off when four heavy trucks drove onto the bridge, plunging them to the ground and crushing them, said a CCTV news reporter at the scene. The bridge was designed to handle up to 9,800 vehicles per hour.
Two people were killed on the spot, a third died later, and five remain in hospital for treatment, the report said, adding that authorities were investigating the cause of the accident.
I’m sure the families of those who died will be nicely compensated by the Communist rulers who oversaw the construction of the bridge.
Meanwhile, in Warren’s mind, she’s probably reveling in the idea that a collapsed bridge just means a bunch of jobs were created!
Which brings us to this:
Think of all the jobs that would be created if more American bridges were collapsing and killing people.
There are some severe logical fallacies in this posting – the most obvious is the connection between spending on infrastructure and collapsing bridges. Do you truly believe that less bridges will collapse if we spend less on infrastructure? Isn’t the opposite of that the truth? Living near Minneapolis, the 35W bridge collapse is still in recent memory and wasn’t caused by too much spending on infrastructure, rather too little spending. Just because two things have something in common – “bridges” (this is called a correlation) doesn’t mean that one caused the other (AKA correlation doesn’t prove causation). I enjoy reading a well thought out posting from any political slant, but this just seems to be taunt at someone you have decided to disagree with. Can you explain why spending on infrastructure is a bad thing? Was the building of the interstate highway system a huge mistake, because it was a huge expense?
If I were you SSP, I’d take some time to research China’s wonderful infrastructure spending. They build to keep their “production” numbers up, not because there’s a need – and quality isn’t as big of a concern as anyone would hope.
I do agree with you that more money should have been spent on the I-35W bridge for maintenance – I guess borrowing another few million from the Chinese wouldn’t hurt…
SHAZBOT!
Maybe THAT’S where we should be more like the Chinese – loaning gobs of money to countries where entire voting blocs are comprised of entitlement junkies voting in politicians whose priority is a constituency of squealing freeloaders.
What if we were to train welfare recipients for infrastructure jobs? Oh right, even looking for work isn’t required to get a free ride thanks to the wisdom and edicts of The One.
And you wonder why we don’t have money for infrastructure…