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calimary

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17. You'd expect corporations could/would think that far ahead.

Sat Sep 25, 2021, 04:00 PM

Sep 2021

Doesn't matter HOW low your corporate taxes are - if all the bridges are washed out and your employees are screwed and can't get to work, and there are no detours that don't crowd up and take four hours one way, and ...

With all their money and manpower and access to the greatest minds and entire divisions given over to planning and anticipating for the future and all that - you'd expect corporations to have a finger on this pulse point already.

And they don't. Short-term profits are all they care about anymore. Seems like NOBODY thinks longterm... or consequences... or ramifications... and certainly not what works for the greater good beyond the immediate confines of the corporation. Only their own stockholders matter.

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Al Franken for the WIN. [View all] sheshe2 Sep 2021 OP

he's right ! gravity can bite you hard ! bridges last only so long ! monkeyman1 Sep 2021 #1

Gravity is not just a theory, it's the Law. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Sep 2021 #11

Poor Al BlueIdaho Sep 2021 #2

I agree Deuxcents Sep 2021 #4

Good point Al! StarryNite Sep 2021 #3

K&R MustLoveBeagles Sep 2021 #5

Minnesota knows about bridge collapses IronLionZion Sep 2021 #6

It happened during... 2naSalit Sep 2021 #8

I took local roads that evening because of rush hour traffic IronLionZion Sep 2021 #15

It's not the fall; it's the landing. sarge43 Sep 2021 #7

:) Don't see many of the 0.1% in my part of our state, though, and the 0.01% Hortensis Sep 2021 #9

Or, climate ravaged seas SCantiGOP Sep 2021 #10

Yep. The yacht as well as the dingy. calimary Sep 2021 #16

That's for your average greedy right-winger. The ultra rich take helicopters and private jets. ffr Sep 2021 #12

Other states besides MN may ignore the bridge infraS. problem, but they shouldn't, in MO, SWBTATTReg Sep 2021 #13

all the U.S. STATES ! all states have bridges that need to be replaced ! monkeyman1 Sep 2021 #19

Without bridges nobody can drive to stores Dukkha Sep 2021 #14

You'd expect corporations could/would think that far ahead. calimary Sep 2021 #17

But... czarjak Sep 2021 #18

Excellent Faux pas Sep 2021 #20