this is from yahoo news canada andf I gues a rueters story.
Rep. James Oberstar, the Minnesota Democrat who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, blamed President George W. Bush’s administration for shortchanging road and bridge repair in a highway funding bill two years ago.
Bush, he said, “failed to support a robust investment in surface transportation,” adding the president insisted on only $2 billion a year for bridge reconstruction when lawmakers were pushing for $3 billion a year.
Additional reporting by Jon Hurdle in Philadelphia, Carey Gillam in Kansas City and Rick Cowan in Washington)
Bush’s fault? For a bridge that had been found to be substandard since the early 1990s? A bridge that they refused year after year after year to fix so they could keep wasting money on “Mass Transit”?
Where was this slime bag Democrat, who has been in the Congress for over 30 years, when this bridge was build so poorly?
That right, IN CONGRESS!
Maybe the State of Minnesota should not of spent over $1 billion during the late 1990s on “Light Rail” projects and instead fixed the bridges people actually USE.