tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post4965092139546579239..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: Failing DamsJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-57168546215249151732020-05-20T11:23:03.740-04:002020-05-20T11:23:03.740-04:00Yet another example of how broken our government i...Yet another example of how broken our government is and how idiotic and out of touch our spending priorities are.<br /><br />We spend $20.2 billion every year <i>on providing air conditioning alone</i> for US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet we can't find the same amount of money to dedicate to either fixing or safely removing countless failing dams.<br /><br />It is official US doctrine that we be prepared at any given moment to fight up to three simultaneous oversea wars successfully, and yet we're unwilling to fix infrastructure at home that has been crumbling and neglected for decades. We'll dump trillions of dollars and sacrifice countless human lives in order to reduce other countries to smoking rubble, but we can't find the money to fix our own country.<br /><br />And we're the richest country on the face of the planet. Disgraceful.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com