Bridging the Gap

The political posturing has begun and the repugnant glee by Democrats of another opportunity to attempt to justify higher taxes jumps out and slaps us all with a dose of what these thieves truly stand for. A bridge collapses causing death and destruction and potential economic catastrophe for Minneapolis and the Democrats and DFL are busy pointing fingers and fully engaged in the blame game...typical.

What lead to the collapse? The answers will come and possibly sooner than any of us anticipated, but it wasn't George W. Bush and it wasn't Tim Pawlenty; sorry to disappoint you DFLers. The cause is in-fact, the DFL. How can I make such a broad assertion? Here I go. The DFL has dominated Minnesota politics for decades. What do they prefer to spend their money on? They love pork barrel, feel-good projects with high visibility and shiny things. They're like teenagers who, wishing to increase their prestige with their friends, spend their money on the latest styles, toys and electronics.

The DFL has been busy promoting things like building fancy new buildings at the Universities, increasing welfare, increasing the size and cost of government instead of taking care of things that fly under the radar like infrastructure maintenance. Nowhere is there a better example of stupid, feel-good, short sighted, expensive projects at the expense of infrastructure than Duluth, Minnesota. We have a wet-house and tons of "affordable" housing being built. At the same time the infrastructure is crumbling literally under the feet and vehicles of Duluthians and City debt is spiralling out of control. The DFL answer? Build a bigger DECC, spend CITF money on everything but infrastructure and put $250,000,000 toward making our school system smaller!

Am I the only one who see how incredibly irresponsible the DFL has been with our tax dollars? Now they want more so they can continue their utter misuse and waste of our hard earned dollars but then also grandstand on the infrastructure that they themselves have ruined. Where the stupidity and disingenousness of the DFL ends only God knows. But know this, the grandstanding has only begun. The DFL has no shame, no morals, no character, and not an honest member among them. The only fools bigger than the elected DFLers are the idiots who keep voting them in. Yes the bridge will be built, Oberstar will take full credit, while dodging the fact that his committee, for decades has entirely abrogated their responsibilities. It has taken a tragedy like the Minneapolis bridge collapse to get them to lift a finger toward rebuilding the infrastructure. They will now use that tragedy to lie to you about what caused it, tell you that Republicans are responsible for it and leverage the useful idiots loyal to them to give a green light to higher taxes. Then, given the bigger pool of money to be spent irresponsibly, will inevitably create some additional government bureaucracy to determine how to further waste it.

Watch for some memorial highway to be built in the name of some high profile Democrat and a whole host of monuments along the highway to honor their own, built courtesy of taxpayers. The infrastructure will become what it is today, a deteriorating bystander, needing but not getting the money to keep it from completely collapsing. They will pat themselves on the back and shed a little tear for their venerable predecessors that they honor with this waste and hold a press conference. Meanwhile, another bridge in some obscure Republican leaning County will continue to crumble until the voting demographic changes.