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You Can't Have a Functioning Democracy Without High Quality Infrastructure
We can't have a strong country without strong infrastructure.
According to authorities, a large piece of concrete barrier fell from the overpass onto the Ellis' truck. The overpass was undergoing a construction project at the time. The tragic deaths of Josh, Vanessa and Hudson Ellis are yet another reminder that America's infrastructure is literally crumbling.
Take our nation's bridges and tunnels for example.
Right now, there are over 600,000 bridges in America that have been labeled as "structurally deficient." In 2007, a bridge collapse on I-35 in Minneapolis killed 13 people and injured 145 others.
In 2013, a bridge on I-5 in Washington State collapsed, sending 3 people plunging into a river. Luckily, they were all rescued. And, in 2006, a section of concrete ceiling panels in Boston's Fort Point Channel Tunnel fell on a car, killing a passenger in that car and severely injuring the driver.
But it's not just our bridges and tunnels that are in disrepair. All across America, roads are buckling, electrical grids are failing, and transport systems are aging.
The richest country in the world is looking more and more like a developing nation each day.
-Thom
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: How FDR warned us against corporate fascism...
Quote: "Less government in business and more business in government" - Warren Harding.
Quote: " The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power" - Franklin D. Roosevelt", April 29, 1938.
Quote: " The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do for themselves, government ought not to interfere." - Abraham Lincoln", July 1, 1854.
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