The US Corps of Engineers have no business using American tax money to build electric power plants in Iraq, when there are plans to build US infrastructure or to maintain US infrastructure that are not being implemented due to lack of funds. Iraqis should be building their own power plants using money taken from the Iraqi people or from oil revenues to the Iraqi government. Why should the US government take money from me to pay for their electricity when their country is floating on a sea of oil and oil is selling for close to $100 a barrel?
Well,Freedom Calls.
Because this is how you win hearts and minds.
Bravo Sierra. That's exactly what they should be doing. I guess you'd rather have them fixing levees around New Orleans?
not being implemented due to lack of funds
Yet when a law was proposed to stop funding bike paths and light rail until all inadequate bridges were up to standard, our “political leaders” voted it down.
My brother in law’s company inspected the Minnesota bridge two years ago and told the state the bridge had to be repaired.
Here’s how the “people’s representatives responded”:
But $10 million of that was dedicated to a commuter rail line, $250,000 for the “Isanti Bike/Walk Trail,” $200,000 to bus services in Duluth, and $150,000 for the Mesabi Academy of Kidspeace in Buhl. None of it went for bridge repair.
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