I give all credit to the Muslims for this great American landmark. Just because it would be racist not to.
Johnny Maestro.
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.
is the bridge for sale again????
Great article! Thanks for posting.
Private profit is a public good.
This deserves to be on every bumper in America.
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.
Good book about this by David McCullough called the Great Bridge.
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!
“You didn’t build that.”
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
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.
Where does the government get the funds to spend on infrastructure?
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)
Sen. Fauxcahontas is not going to be happy about this article.
Who built the Brooklyn Bridge?
Blacks and Mexicans.
They built the whole country, donchaknow.
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.