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November 8th, 2012, 12:45 AM | #1041 |
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The Republicans wouldn't just mock the idea, they'd shoot any such bill in the heart if it came to a vote. Projects like that require vision, not obstruction.
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Hate to tell you this bombermouse, but many of the great infrastructure projects in the US were championed by Republicans. Boulder Dam was authorized by President Coolidge and the interstate system was started under Eisenhower. Just saying, not one party is at fault.
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The problem is that those Republicans are long gone and have been replaced by a group of people who believe exactly the opposite. Party orthodoxy is now paramount and if you don't follow the party line then you're a RINO and you get little support. Thinking about it, when was the last time the Republicans proposed anything like the interstate highway system? The last thing I can think of was Ted Steven's "bridge to Nowhere pork" in Alaska. And that certainly isn't on the same scale as the interstate system. Nowadays, all you hear from Republicans is, "No, we can't do that, it costs too much" and "No, we can't raise taxes on the 1%, they're the job creators". BS Small people with small minds and small ideas. |
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November 8th, 2012, 11:39 PM | #1047 | |
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Look at Richard Lugar, Senator of Indiana. A guy with gravitas who had respect from all parties, not conservative enough so he lost in the Republican party to a nutjob, who then went on to lose a Senate seat that the R's should have no trouble holding with crazy ruminations about how God feels about rape and pregnancy. Or Olympia Snow, of Maine . . . who just decided not to run. Not that she was facing a hard renomination fight, just that she didn't enjoy battling the crazies. |
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November 9th, 2012, 06:15 AM | #1048 |
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Why not go the whole hog and give us back the Thirteen Colonies.
That'd be 13 less stars to worry about on the flag Hope that helps
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It doesn't show the Jersey shore, which forms the bottom end of New York Bay; that would be at the bottom of the map if the map went down far enough. One barrage would need to span New York Bay in order to protect Staten Island (the purple bit) and metropolitan New Jersey. Top left is the western extremity of Long Island Sound. It runs to the Atlantic from the East River, between the north shore of Long Island and the coast of Connecticutt. It is perfectly formed to support a storm surge and a barrage would be necessary here also, or else the surge would just bypass the New York Bay barrage. When opened in 1984, the Thames Barrier cost £534m: this would probably be about £2bn is today's money. It is very small compared with any defence system capable of shielding the Greater New York area. But against that, the Dutch use large wide sea barriers with gates for navigation: though very big, they are simpler to build. You wouldn't need a mechanical barrier to span the entire bay or all of Long Island Sound; you'd need a big enough gate to allow shipping free access and to minimise the environmental effects of having a barrier, but that's all. Even so, it would be an immense and expensive project which would probably take over a decade. But how much will it cost to repair the damage done to New York and New Jersey by Hurricane Sandy? This could be a very wise investment. It might at least be worth a feaibility study, and an environmental impact assessment, so Congress could then discuss whether it is a viable possibility. You could conceivably use this project as a means to generate hydro-electric power from the tides. The French do something like this on the Rhone estuary.
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