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To: cripplecreek
Compare that to the decade spent building the Hoover dam bypass bridge.

A decade? The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake damaged the SF/Oakland Bay Bridge, and we're still a couple years away from finishing building a new section. That's over 22 years gone by. With Chinese technology and the steel and concrete components manufactured in China. The authorities said it couldn't be done here. That's what experts said about building the original and the GG Bridge in the 1930s, but back then they had a can-do attitude to figure it out, and built both bridges in 3-1/2 years simultaneously. We need to get "can-do" back in our conversations.

70 posted on 11/01/2011 1:43:40 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: roadcat

Its sad how far we’ve fallen in this country.


71 posted on 11/01/2011 2:23:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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