2012-09-24

Facts About America’s Decaying Infrastructure That Will Blow Your Mind

***Vatic Update: I have begun working, while being sick on an alternative to fund raising.  I have begun the process, but not anywhere close to a completion so I will have to fund raise this month for, hopefully, only one more time around the block.   I have talked to an investor for my jewelry and  have to work out a business plan, marketing plan  and financing plan.  This will take a minimum of 30 days, assuming I do not have a relapse.  So if you would please  help us this month by the first in raising our deficit of $300,  we would really appreciate it very much.  If we don't make it I will be sleeping in my car.  LOL  No way can I take my reseaerch with me on that basis.  


My health is improving, but this was  the longest supposedly head cold and chest cold illness I have ever had, so I am sure there was some geoengineering involved.   They are softening us up with these bioweapons that lessens our health and immune system weakened so they can hit us hard with the real Bioweapon that Moshe told us about.  He is the Israeli Microbiologist that warned Americans about their pneumonia virus they are spreading as a war game in Ukraine,  and intend to use on us here.   They captured him and shipped him back to Israel.   No arrest.... hmmm....SO, 


Vatic Note:  So, the really big question is.... why would owners of most  major corporations in the United States, who rely heavily on infrastructure for  moving their goods in a timely and safe fashion, be so quiet  and not make waves over the condition of our infrastructure and I do mean the whole of it... including bridges, railways, roads, degrading power grid, that has been privatized.... etc... ?   


We have proven, as a nation of concerned citizens, that we are perfectly capable of not consuming when it becomes clear that it is hurting not  only us, but our nation as a whole.  Would that fact play a part in a reduced expectation of these corporations in sales and profits?? In fact, are they pushing us into reducing our consumption?  Is that necessarily bad?  Well, in light of other facts, it could be.   Also keep in mind these insane cretins also engage in "geoengineering" our air,  Genetically modify our food, Socially engineering our society and culture,  mess with our DNA,  Haarp our weather so there is no rain to either drink or grow food, and many other mentally ill acts of inhumanity.  


So, under the legal concept of the "Reasonable man theory",  that postulates the question for the jury to consider "GIVEN THE FACTS, WHAT WOULD A REASONABLE MAN THINK?" and thus you can convict someone to death on that principle.  Well, then that is the least we can assume then to come up with solutions. 


These same owners of the corporations also own 96%  of our MSM who normally would be sounding the alarm and warning bells about the dangers of this condition in this country, but, are instead, actually keeping this fact quiet,  and that does not make any sense unless there is a much bigger agenda.... maybe agenda 21??. I do not know, but it fits with depopulating the planet.  Whenever I start to look at such information in light of the larger cabal actions and plans, I tend toward suspicion and distrust.  


It would cost a lot less and reduce the amount of infrastructure if the population is down substantially.  They would then reclaim previously developed land and turn it into natural green belts.  Remember, they are not trying very hard to resell foreclosed properties.  Why is that?   


Further, we already know they have a plan to herd us all into ant colonies, smart meter us in our bedrooms, and pull us out of rural America.  I honestly believe one of the reasons for TSA is to acclimate us into spying in our bedrooms and monitoring our sex habits and reproductive capabilities.  They  have already begun pulling us out of rural America, with the Farmers and ranchers by forcing them into bankruptcy resulting in disappearing family farms and ranches in favor of agricorps, also owned by them.    They are having no trouble building gulf courses and resorts along our coast line in the gulf as a result of cheap land sales prices due to drop off of fishing and tourism.    


If they cared about profits, they would have to care about transport timing and safety.  So why?   When we answer that question factually,  we will know why this is happening.  Massive TARP money and military empire building for allies is eating up those  funds, and putting our tax dollars into bonuses for CEO's  of those same corporations, while also spending $40,000 per night on prostitutes for their recreation needs.  So, either they are so incompetent and corrupt or their agenda accedes that which would be a simple "profit" motive. Or, third, its both.  I vote for the latter, an unknown agenda that is bigger than annual profits while also indulging their corruption.  Anyway, you read and decide.  

21 Facts About America’s Decaying Infrastructure That Will Blow Your Mind
http://theintelhub.com/2012/09/22/21-facts-about-americas-decaying-infrastructure-that-will-blow-your-mind-2/
By The Intel Hub


Source: By Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
September 22, 2012
You can tell a lot about a nation by the condition of the infrastructure.  So what does our infrastructure say about us?  It says that we are in a very advanced state of decay.
At this point, much of America is being held together with spit, duct tape and prayers.
Our roads are crumbling and thousands of our bridges look like they could collapse at any moment.  Our power grid is ancient and over a trillion gallons of untreated sewage is leaking from our aging sewer systems each year.
Our airports and our seaports are clogged with far more traffic than they were ever designed to carry.  Approximately a third of all of the dam failures that have taken place in the United States since 1874 have happened during the past decade.
Our national parks and recreation areas have been terribly neglected and our railroads are a bad joke.  Hurricane Katrina showed how vulnerable our levees are, and drinking water systems all over the country are badly outdated.
Sadly, at a time when we could use significant new investment in infrastructure, our spending on infrastructure is actually way down.  Back during the 50s and the 60s, the U.S. was spending between 3 and 4 percent of GDP on infrastructure.
Today, that figure is down to about 2.4 percent.  But of course we don’t have any extra money to spend on infrastructure because of our reckless spending and because of the massive amount of debt that we have accumulated.


While the Obama administration is spending more than half a million dollars to figure out why chimpanzees throw poop, our national infrastructure is literally falling apart all around us.
Once upon a time nobody else on the planet could match our infrastructure, and now we are in the process of becoming a joke to the rest of the world.
The following are 21 facts about America’s failing infrastructure that will blow your mind….
#1 The American Society of Civil Engineers has given America’s crumbling infrastructure an overall grade of D.
#2 There are simply not enough roads in the United States today.  Each year, traffic jams cost the commuters of America 4.2 billion hours and about 2.8 million gallons of gasoline.
#3 It is being projected that Americans will spend an average of 160 hours stuck in traffic annually by the year 2035.

#4 Approximately one-third of all roads in the United States are in substandard condition.
#5 Close to a third of all highway fatalities are due “to substandard road conditions, obsolete road designs, or roadside hazards.”
#6 One out of every four bridges in America either carries more traffic than originally intended or is in need of repair.
#7 Repairing all of the bridges in the United States that need repair would take approximately 140 billion dollars.
#8 According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, our decaying transportation system costs the U.S. economy about 78 billion dollars annually in lost time and fuel.
#9 All over America, asphalt roads are being ground up and are being replaced with gravel roads because they are cheaper to maintain.  The state of South Dakota has transformed over 100 miles of asphalt roads into gravel roads, and 38 out of the 83 counties in the state of Michigan have transformed at least some of their asphalt roads into gravel roads.
#10 There are 4,095 dams in the United States that are at risk of failure.  That number has risen by more than 100 percent since 1999.
#11 Of all the dam failures that have happened in the United States since 1874, a third of them have happened during the past decade.
#12 Close to half of all U.S. households do not have access to bus or rail transit.
#13 Our aging sewer systems spill more than a trillion gallons of untreated sewage every single year.  The cost of cleaning up that sewage each year is estimated to be greater than 50 billion dollars.
#14 It is estimated that rolling blackouts and inefficiencies in the U.S. electrical grid cost the U.S. economy approximately 80 billion dollars a year.
#15 It is being projected that by the year 2020 every single major container port in the United States will be handling at least double the volume that it was originally designed to handle.
#16 All across the United States, conditions at many of our state parks, recreation areas and historic sites are deplorable at best.  Some states have backlogs of repair projects that are now over a billion dollars long….
More than a dozen states estimate that their backlogs are at least $100 million. Massachusetts and New York’s are at least $1 billion. Hawaii officials called park conditions “deplorable” in a December report asking for $50 million per year for five years to tackle a $240 million backlog that covers parks, trails and harbors.
#17 Today, the U.S. spends about 2.4 percent of GDP on infrastructure.  Meanwhile, China spends about 9 percent of GDP on infrastructure.
#18 In the United States today, approximately 16 percent of our construction workers are unemployed.
#19 China has plans to build 55,000 miles of highways by the year 2020.  If all of those roads were put end to end, it would be longer than the total length of the entire U.S. interstate system.
#20 The World Economic Forum ranks U.S. infrastructure 23rd in the world, and we fall a little bit farther behind the rest of the developed world every single day.
#21 It has been projected that it would take 2.2 trillion dollars over the next 5 years just to repair our existing infrastructure.  That does not even include a single penny for badly needed new infrastructure.
So where did we go wrong?
Well, one of the big problems is that we have become a very materialistic society that is obsessed with short-term thinking.  Investing in infrastructure is something that has long-term benefits, but these days Americans tend to only be focused on what is happening right now and most politicians are only focused on the next election cycle.
Another major problem is that there is so much corruption and waste in our system these days.  The government certainly spends more than enough money, but very little of that money is spent wisely.  A lot of the money that could be going toward rebuilding our infrastructure is being poured down the toilet instead.  For much more on this, please read my previous article entitled “16 Sickening Facts That Show How Members Of Congress And Federal Workers Are Living The High Life At Your Expense“.
Unfortunately, it is probably appropriate that our infrastructure is decaying because we are decaying in just about every other way that it is possible for a society to decay.  (VN: 
We are decaying economically, politically, mentally, emotionally, physically, morally and spiritually.
We are a complete and total mess.  So why shouldn’t what is happening to our infrastructure on the outside match what is happening to us as a nation on the inside?
And sadly, we simply do not have the money that we need for infrastructure because of all the debt that we have piled up.  The federal government, our state governments and our local governments are all struggling to stay afloat in an ocean of red ink, and unfortunately that means that spending on infrastructure is likely to be cut even more in the years ahead.
So get used to rotting, crumbling, decaying infrastructure.  What you see out there right now is only just the beginning.
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