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Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge?
Townhall.com ^ | May 29, 2015 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 05/29/2015 4:47:14 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/29/2015 4:47:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
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I give all credit to the Muslims for this great American landmark. Just because it would be racist not to.


2 posted on 05/29/2015 4:50:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
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Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge?

Johnny Maestro.

3 posted on 05/29/2015 4:59:01 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Today's Civil Rights movement: Black Lives Matter--unless they are cops.)
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The argument isn’t who was the innovator behind the building of America’s infrastructure. It’s solely about what do we do now about its crumbling.


4 posted on 05/29/2015 5:02:11 AM PDT by sakic
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Is it crumbling?

where is the evidence?


5 posted on 05/29/2015 5:04:22 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Kaslin

is the bridge for sale again????


6 posted on 05/29/2015 5:07:07 AM PDT by M-cubed ( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
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To: Kaslin

Great article! Thanks for posting.


7 posted on 05/29/2015 5:07:35 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Kaslin

Private profit is a public good.

This deserves to be on every bumper in America.


8 posted on 05/29/2015 5:09:27 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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All the brains these progressive libtards claim to have and they still can’t aspire to the wisdom that can be taught by a pencil.


9 posted on 05/29/2015 5:10:03 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: bert

http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/


10 posted on 05/29/2015 5:20:29 AM PDT by sakic
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To: Kaslin

Good book about this by David McCullough called the Great Bridge.


11 posted on 05/29/2015 5:21:33 AM PDT by Mercat (Release the HildeKraken)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Actually according to the History Channel and Wikepedia John Augustus Roebling was the Architect of the bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge Wikipedia
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Building the Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

12 posted on 05/29/2015 5:26:01 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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Anything the Government is connected in building - the price is nearly 100 times the real cost - $600.00 hammer. This was many years ago. Probably the same cost today would be $2200 hammer! Government does not build anything worthwhile without the unions being involved in inflated prices!


13 posted on 05/29/2015 5:26:11 AM PDT by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: wastoute
Ha! I saw what you just did there.

Milton Friedman's pencil example is still one of the best illustrations of free market forces at work that I have ever seen/heard.

Good one!

14 posted on 05/29/2015 5:29:26 AM PDT by liberty_lvr (The world is aflame and our pResident is responsible for it.)
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LOL. Thanks.


15 posted on 05/29/2015 5:31:24 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Kaslin

“You didn’t build that.”


16 posted on 05/29/2015 5:42:50 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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We also gave this bastard $Trillionos of dollars for “shovel ready projects” to build roads and bridges, and have nothing to show for it.

Where did the $Trillions go? We were $8Trillion in debt when this ass hole took over, and now we are $18Tillion in debt.

WHERE DID THE SPEND $10 TRILLION DOLLARS?

Thats $33,000 for every man, woman, and child in the USA


17 posted on 05/29/2015 5:45:40 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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Most of the subway system in NYC was built by private companies. Almost all transit (trolleys, buses) was privately-owned until the companies were deliberately destroyed by government.


18 posted on 05/29/2015 5:46:30 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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Without government infrastructure spending

Where does the government get the funds to spend on infrastructure?

19 posted on 05/29/2015 5:47:27 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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The unions and Democrat cronies.


20 posted on 05/29/2015 5:49:36 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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