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    Default Infrastructure Report by State

    How bad is your state’s infrastructure?

    https://infrastructurereportcard.org...nfrastructure/

    Looking at this report, every Congress critter should be on board for passing the infrastructure bill.

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    Pretty bad all the way around.
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    Bad infrastructure hampers local economy, cost people money.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    How bad is your state’s infrastructure?

    https://infrastructurereportcard.org...nfrastructure/

    Looking at this report, every Congress critter should be on board for passing the infrastructure bill.
    I think they all are.
    It's the OTHER bill that is having problems.

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    Default Bolsheviks at the door

    Publicly owned and financed transportation systems and infrastructure sounds like Socialism to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Publicly owned and financed transportation systems and infrastructure sounds like Socialism to me.
    Wasn't NASA a 'State Owned Enterprise'?
    Public Schools: State owned, Paid by the State, Free to everyone. Is that socialism?
    How about Hoover Dam?

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    Hello Cypress,

    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Publicly owned and financed transportation systems and infrastructure sounds like Socialism to me.
    And the problem with socialism is, let me guess, all the scary things the right says about it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    How bad is your state’s infrastructure?

    https://infrastructurereportcard.org...nfrastructure/

    Looking at this report, every Congress critter should be on board for passing the infrastructure bill.
    Ugh. D+. We scored lower than bumfuck Missouri, which has a C-.
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    Well, our railroads are good, anyways...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Wasn't NASA a 'State Owned Enterprise'?
    Public Schools: State owned, Paid by the State, Free to everyone. Is that socialism?
    How about Hoover Dam?
    The Tennessee Valley Authority brought electricity to the rubes

    TVA a federally-owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RB 60 View Post
    Well, our railroads are good, anyways...
    The trains running on time?
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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    The Tennessee Valley Authority brought electricity to the rubes

    TVA a federally-owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia.
    Anybody in Appalachia complaining about the TVA?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    The trains running on time?
    Yes. They run all the time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Anybody in Appalachia complaining about the TVA?

    you are ignoring the BPA
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    Quote Originally Posted by RB 60 View Post
    Yes. They run all the time.
    Mussolini got the trains to run on time by vastly reducing the service


    Think about that

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