Here’s the million-dollar question nobody is asking about the Baltimore bridge collapse…

The recent bridge collapse in Baltimore is an absolute nightmare, and our thoughts are with the victims and their families during this incredibly tough time. Beyond the heart-wrenching loss and the basic “whys” everyone’s dealing with, there’s one crucial question not many are asking: Can America rebuild the bridge?

Sure, it might seem odd to wonder about our capability to build a bridge in 2024, but sadly, it’s a valid concern these days. When you consider how our nation is faltering under inept globalist rule, dragged down by dangerous DEI agendas that place “charity” over excellence, and watching the decimation of hardworking middle-class America, the question isn’t just rhetorical—it’s a stark reflection of our abysmal current reality.

Revolver has been calling attention to this decline in American society for quite some time, starting from when Biden first introduced his “infrastructure bill.” Fast forward three years, and here we are: bridges collapsing, roads deteriorating, and let’s not even dive into the chaos unfolding in our skies or the sorry state of our airports. Meanwhile, as China makes serious strides forward, it feels like we’re just spinning our wheels, stuck in neutral. It’s a stark contrast that highlights where our priorities have been misplaced and the need for a serious reevaluation of how we invest in our nation’s future.

Infrastructure has been a popular cause on the right since Donald Trump’s presidential run began six years ago, and for good reason. If President Trump had started his first term with a massive bipartisan infrastructure project that included the Wall, rather than following GOP hack Paul Ryan’s tax cut agenda, the country would almost certainly be better off. Spending money to develop America and improve the lives of citizens is a much better use of the country’s wealth than fighting forever wars in the Hindu Kush or simply keeping half the country on the dole in one form or another.

But there needs to be a degree of realism as well: In the country America has become, it’s never as simple as just spending money on infrastructure instead of warfare and welfare. Without truly ambitious, far-reaching reforms, and a competent non-corrupt leadership class to implement them, infrastructure is either a spoils system for special interest clients, or simply an expensive effort to maintain a crumbling status quo.

This is the real tragedy of the infrastructure bill. It’s not just about waste, excessive expense, incompetence, or special interest grift, though all that is there and it is impossible to imagine a major bill without these corruptions. It’s also, at a deeper level, about the disappearance of greatness from our national spirit. Fifty-two years ago, the United States sent men to the moon. Today, America is no longer capable of a moon-landing level national project — in fact, America may literally be incapable of an actual moon landing, too. Regardless, this infrastructure bill aspires to nothing of the sort.

“I know longer recognize America without massive small town manufacturing.”

Manufacturing provided a pathway to a middle class lifestyle for many poorAmericans with limited education. A high school graduate from a dirt poor farm family could go to work in a factory as an unskilled floor sweeper or material handler, be trained to run equipment and eventually rise into management Even the skilled labor jobs provided a middle class living. All it took was ambition, hard work, common sense and some intelligence. A manufacturing plant in a small town also generated middle class jobs in the local community where the workers spent their wages. Trickle down economics was real.

Drive through these towns off the interstate highways today and see the devastating economic impact of three decades of purposeful deindustrialization.

Compare: Under a dictatorship and no EPA etc. or Woke regs and people with a work (or else) ethic, and with funds due to commence enabled (which i engage in when I but Chinese items, which often find no real competition now) by pols seeking power and or imagining democracy itself was the answer and opening vast trade to China (with postal and tariff breaks), then China is leaving the US in the dust in bridge building. Thus headlines as.

Beijing is building roads & bridges. America should take notice ... American Trucking Associations https://www.trucking.org › news-insights › beijing-buildi... For years, Beijing has been making investment in transportation and trade infrastructure — within its borders and also beyond — a top priority....Thirty years ago, there were no highways in China. Today, its national highway network spans more 88,000 miles — more than any other country in the world. And they are not slowing down: since 2011, the Chinese have built 6,000 miles of new highway every year.

There are [2019] 178 million daily crossings on over 47,000 structurally deficient U.S. bridges.

America’s trucking industry knows what’s at stake. We move 10.77 billion tons of freight every year — a task made ever-more challenging by the atrocious condition of our country’s roadways and bridges — and that tonnage is projected to grow by 27% over the next decade - https://www.trucking.org/news-insights/beijing-building-roads-bridges-america-should-take-notice

2022-05-07 $50 billion! U.S. asks China to help build bridge...he world famous bridge, the Oakland Bay Bridge from San Francisco, was built in 1936. The bridge consists of two parts, east and west, connecting Oakland and San Francisco.

The US Turns To China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSQAqMDi1yQ

May 23, 2023 This 15-mile, $6.7B bridge is a symbol of China’s ambitions, and its problems.. Even in a land known for gargantuan, record-breaking infrastructure, this project is turning heads. At 15 miles long (24 kilometers), eight lanes wide and featuring artificial islands and an undersea tunnel, China’s $6.7 billion Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge is nothing if not ambitious. To much fanfare in the country’s state media, the bridge’s builders recently claimed a new world record by paving in a single day more than 243,200 square feet (22,600 square meters) of asphalt, the equivalent of more than 50 basketball courts.

Yet strange as it may sound, this is not the world’s longest sea bridge. That honor belongs to its 34-mile long neighbor, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge – just 20 miles away. ...Like its sister bridge in Hong Kong, when the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge opens to traffic next year after eight years of construction,

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When Deng Xiaoping arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington in January 1979, his country was just emerging from a long revolutionary deep freeze. No one knew much about this 5-foot-tall Chinese leader. He had suddenly reappeared on the scene after twice being cashiered by Mao, who famously described him as “a needle inside a ball of cotton.” But in 1979 he knew exactly what he wanted: better relations with the U.S. He and President Jimmy Carter appeared to be serious about resolving differences.

- https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/china-strikes-back

On January 1, 1979, the US officially switched diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China (ROC), or Taiwan, to the PRC. In announcing that decision two weeks earlier, president Jimmy Carter said the historic change he was announcing “will be of great long‐term benefit to the peoples of both our country and China.”

https://asiatimes.com/2019/05/does-us-regret-its-past-china-engagement/

President Bill Clinton talks with former President Jimmy Carter as former President Gerald Ford looks on, at a China trade event.

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