Maybe we can crap on "...358 volumes of decisions and minutes of the Cologne City Council dating back 700 years...."
March 5, 2009 6:48 AM   Subscribe

Throwing the past into a literal memory hole. Because building infrastructure isn't important to the economy. Infrastructure is just stealing from our grandkids.
posted by orthogonality (12 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Beat to the punch, go ahead and port this stuff into that thread. -- cortex



 
FWIW, the Cologne Archive Disaster is initially being blamed on the construction of a nearby underground railway station ie. new infrastructure.
posted by stbalbach at 6:53 AM on March 5, 2009


Lumping any damn pet project you have into an "infrastructure" bill doesn't make it infrastructure.
posted by Malor at 6:54 AM on March 5, 2009


I get the impression that if we built a mile-tall statue of George Washington in the middle of Wyoming, the resulting job creation would be a boost to our economy. If the stuff we build happens to actually improve peoples lives, that's just the icing on the cake. Yes, even if it involves magnetically levitating trains.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 6:55 AM on March 5, 2009


building infrastructure isn't important to the economy.

So shitting in my neighbors garden isn't a new idea? Huh.
posted by orme at 6:57 AM on March 5, 2009


Didn't I see the Cologne City Archive destroyed somewhere else eleven minutes ago?
posted by ardgedee at 7:01 AM on March 5, 2009


"FWIW, the Cologne Archive Disaster is initially being blamed on the construction of a nearby underground railway station ie. new infrastructure."

And the archivists had been warning about the building deteriorating for years. And its design trapped heat, damaging old documents and melting wax seal on them.

Any way you slice it, misplaced priorities have caused a tragic and irreplaceable loss of our cultural heritage. And in India, millions waste hours and millions more get sickened, for lack of sanitation. And in New Orleans and Minneapolis, jack-of politicians scream about "Socialism!" and people die for lower taxes for millionaires.
posted by orthogonality at 7:02 AM on March 5, 2009


Malor: "Lumping any damn pet project you have into an "infrastructure" bill doesn't make it infrastructure."

Ah..no. 1) Every project is someones pet project. 2) it's not an infrastructure bill, it's an economic stimulus law that cuts across the entire economy from blue collar road builders to NASA engineers 3) only so much infrastructure is shovel ready, less than is needed for an economic stimulus.
posted by stbalbach at 7:14 AM on March 5, 2009


If the stuff we build happens to actually improve peoples lives, that's just the icing on the cake. Yes, even if it involves magnetically levitating trains.

Forget it. Those things only go from Las Vegas to Disneyland.
posted by Spatch at 7:15 AM on March 5, 2009


Previously, on Infrastructure!
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:21 AM on March 5, 2009


How long exactly does it take for Reaganomic Kool-aide to leave ones system? And is it true it kind of tastes like a cross between crushed OxyContin and bullshit?
posted by ElvisJesus at 7:30 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


You know what blows me away? The GOP insisting that the New Deal didn't work because government spending never created jobs--it was really World War II that got us out of the Depression, all of the government orders and employment coming from the war, you know.
posted by Ironmouth at 7:41 AM on March 5, 2009


If infrastructure was important, private industry would be handling it. They are not. Ergo, it's not important.

Signed,

Grover Norquist and friends
posted by Benny Andajetz at 8:01 AM on March 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


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