Many years ago, Phillips Petroleum Company came up with a brilliant idea. Instead of crappy patches of cracks and potholes on roadways that only last a year or two, they came up with the idea of rolling out a Kevlar sheet on the roadbed before laying down the asphalt.
They figured that even in harsh conditions, roads could last a decade or two between repairs. It would cost more up front, but more than pay for itself in short order.
What Phillips didn’t count on was that every state in the US had a powerful road repair lobby, often affiliated with organized crime, and backed by strong unions. And such an invention would put 9 out of 10 of these companies out of business.
Which is why today we still have cracked and potholed roadways that get crappy patches every year.
Which is exactly why Obama is out this week crying about the need for more money to fix roads and bridges.
Construction Union Wages have gone up some 30% since Obama became pResident. Any other workers seeing that kind of raise?
Bingo