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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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To: tet68

100 % agreed.


21 posted on 05/29/2015 5:52:29 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: MosesKnows
Where does the government get the funds to spend on infrastructure?

These days from debt created out of thin air.

22 posted on 05/29/2015 5:56:02 AM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.)
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To: sakic

Let them sell sponsorships.

“This westbound lane of the Brooklyn Bridge brought to you by Microsoft”.

Seriously, my town needs to replace the running track and football field at the high school. We have one person who will make a donation for about 50% of the cost IF we raise the remainder by the end of the year. We are trying to get local businesses to sponsor the track and field. Therefore, we will probably end up with billboards around the facility.

Why can’t some of these larger public works projects sponsored by large corporations.


23 posted on 05/29/2015 5:57:08 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: hondact200
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!
At the same time, that sort of thing can be demagogued, too. Consider the $1000 ash try added into the cockpits of some cargo aircraft. The paperwork burden required to do anything in a military aircraft made it impossible to make money doing that job for a measly $1000. It was unavoidable, if the pilots were going to smoke. It turned out that there were sports cars on the market for which you would have to pay $300 to replace an ash try.

In that situation, the manufacturer would have been better off to have done the job gratis rather than take the PR hit.

There was also the case of the model airplane which was needed to demonstrate the solution to a problem in that aircraft type. The engineer bought the model out of his own pocket for $10; if he had requisitioned it he would have waited at least half a year - and meeting all the requirements would have caused the cost to be at least $50 in paperwork.


24 posted on 05/29/2015 6:03:16 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Kaslin
Taking me seriously is the worst that could happen.

Johnny Maestro.

25 posted on 05/29/2015 6:13:59 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Today's Civil Rights movement: Black Lives Matter--unless they are cops.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Is someone stopping them?

This will become a much larger issue when some sort of catastrophe occurs.


26 posted on 05/29/2015 6:16:20 AM PDT by sakic
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

*rme* The article was not about some musical group, but the architect of the bridge.


27 posted on 05/29/2015 6:19:35 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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To: Kaslin

Geez—I was being facetious! Didn’t mean to mess up your thread.


28 posted on 05/29/2015 6:20:49 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Today's Civil Rights movement: Black Lives Matter--unless they are cops.)
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To: Kaslin
I, Pencil is an article written in 1958 by Leonard E. Read. It was the source of Milton Friedman's much later reference to the fact that "nobody knows how to make a pencil." The point of the article is that although a pencil seems trivially simple, the Eberhard Faber company didn't make the raw materials for it, nor the equipment required to efficiently manufacture pencils from those materials. And the same applies to all the manufacturers of the enamel and the rest of the ingredients. Not only so, but the people required to do all the work in the suppliers as well as Eberhard Faber itself all had to be supplied with their needs and wants, or else they wouldn't be available to do the work either.

The obvious conclusion is that society - not just a single company - makes the pencil. Note well, I said "society." I did not say, "government":

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine,Common Sense (1776)


29 posted on 05/29/2015 6:23:38 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Kaslin

Sen. Fauxcahontas is not going to be happy about this article.


30 posted on 05/29/2015 6:34:52 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Mr. K

You see; it wouldn’t be - uh - “polite” to ask the FIRST “BLACK” PRESIDENT questions like that. I’ll admit; it IS a puzzle where all that money went. (Down the old rabbit hole, I suppose.) - I keep seeing quotes from people who intend to “impeach” him for his boo-boos; and most of them are raising funds for legal fees to pursue bringing him to justice. - I guess I’ve gotten cynical over the years.


31 posted on 05/29/2015 7:21:40 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Excellent pairing.


32 posted on 05/29/2015 11:14:43 AM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Great call back! Thanks


33 posted on 05/29/2015 11:46:42 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Kaslin

Who built the Brooklyn Bridge?

Blacks and Mexicans.

They built the whole country, donchaknow.


34 posted on 05/29/2015 11:48:32 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: M-cubed; campaignPete R-CT; fieldmarshaldj

It is. I built it. I own it. But I’m willing to sell it for peanuts really! You’d be a fool not to buy it at such a ridiculously low price!


35 posted on 05/30/2015 12:18:59 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Ray76
society - not just a single company - makes the pencil. Note well, I said "society." I did not say, "government":
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Excellent pairing.
The last of my uncles to pass on was a lifelong flaming lib. I noted in him the tendency to "confound society with government," and finally I challenged him to define the difference between the two. He confessed that he did not distinguish between the two. It became my settled opinion that socialists compulsively use "society" as a euphemism for "government," and if I had the ear of a Republican Speaker of the House, I would recommend that House rules should allow a point of order to be made whenever anyone abused the English language in that specific way.

It is Newspeak.

Of course, "public" is abused in exactly the same way, and that should be out of bounds as well. As Milton Friedman pointed out, a "public" school is nothing other than a government school.

36 posted on 05/30/2015 7:53:25 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Kaslin

The Brooklyn Bridge as an example of free market enterprise? Ha! Sure, the work originally started under the New York Bridge Company (a private company), but the project went way over budget and was taken over by the cities of New York and Brooklyn, who paid the majority of the $15 million (over $2.5 billion in today dollars) construction costs.


37 posted on 05/30/2015 7:26:57 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Arthur McGowan

Nearly all of the NYC subway system was built by the city, and then leased to private companies to operate.


38 posted on 05/30/2015 7:33:38 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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