Twighlight of the Infrastructure

from TomPaine.com:


Twighlight of the Infrastructure
Submitted by Rick Perlstein on July 22, 2007 - 2:48pm.


"About 200 people were trapped inside the 630-foot Gateway Arch for about two hours after an aparent power outgage, authorities said..."

Once more, the same relief: it wasn't terrorism.

Once more, the same explanation suggests itself: a national failure to adequately fund a public resource.

"The 630-foot-tall structure is operated by the National Park Service..."

And, lo and behold, see here. Every year since 2000, President Bush has promised to hack through the maintenance backlog at the National Parks. Surprise, suprise, he's turned to privatization to do it—corporate charity, basically. And, surprise, surprise, the backlog has grown, not decreased. Expect more tourists trapped atop national treasures. Says the legislative director of the National Parks Conservation Association, “If you don’t deal with the maintenance backlog problem, maintenance facilities will start to crumble and we will lose cultural and historical resources forever."

http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/twighlight_infrastructure?tx=3

Something being drowned in the bathtub (the wrong thing, IMO)!

i think that's the point. privatize everything. pretty soon only the rich will have enough money to live here.

ellen fl

for over HERE. Counting the days till we're no longer ruled by the criminally insane.