Forgive me, I’m in the mood to rant. A lot!
I live in the Greater Johnstown Area, where for five or six years getting from Point A to Point B has involved dealing with road delays due to sewer work.
Simply put, our genius public servants ignored a sewer treatment problem until the Feds arrived with heavy-handed, shoot ’em all and let God sort them out remedies.
The Federal government is great at making wide-ranging declarations and leaving it for the local citizenry to figure out a way to pay for it all.
This has been a boon for contractors large and small. Demand has been created, whether it be working at tearing up basements inside houses, or tearing up streets to replace main lines.
The homeowners keep a lid on things because they don’t have unlimited funds. Crews don’t qualify for retirement there without ever completing the job.
But at the municipal level, there’s a whole lot of money being spent and not a whole lot of progress being made. My son’s municipality had the original contractor botch things so badly another contractor is redoing the work. I’m sure that’s not costing anything extra.
And so if I drive a mile in any direction from my house I’m treated to the repeated sight of four or five guys standing around an open hole looking into it as intently as if it were a strip show.
Rain, sleet, snow, sun, it doesn’t matter. They stand there and stare at the holes as if expecting them to magically finish the job on their own.
These hole watchers seem to be happy sorts. The other day I actually saw one guy move onto a truck, grab a rake, and laugh uproariously before putting it down.
At this rate, our national “infrastructure” bill, once it’s done donating to illegal immigrants and to various social misfit causes, might be able to get a block or two of sidewalks put in. Maybe.
The infrastructure idiocy is rampant in my hometown. Streets that were ripped up and left like the Ho Chi Minh Trail, after the B-52 bombers were through, finally have been put back into passable condition.
This is just in time for the spray-painting morons to wield their cans marking up the new pavement for fresh rounds of surgery. Incredible? Yes. True? Sadly, also yes.
Along that line of the left hand never consulting the right, the athletic field in my home school district is under some sort of major construction. The field is near a relatively new school, that had a new playground installed when it was built.
Guess what happened to that new playground? Torn town and trucked away for this latest project to unfold.
Thank you, morons. I’m sure that didn’t cost any extra money or waste any dollars for the school district whose taxpayers already shoulder the highest tax rates in the county.
Our local hodgepodge of waste and misuse of funds is indicative of a nation short on common sense and traditional values.
Clueless Joe Biden’s nominee for a top bank regulating position is a Marxist academic with a shoplifting record who is on the record wanting to bankrupt banks and energy companies in some delusional screed against our nation.
But if you criticize her, you are some kind of misogynist racist because Lefty Lucy is an Asian woman.
Are they nominating free-enterprise capitalists for positions of prominence in either the Chinese or Russian governments? I think not.
Meanwhile, we have a young man on trial in Wisconsin for doing no worse than using a gun to defend himself against people trying to kill him, as evidenced by videos and even testimony from some of the assailants. The not-guilty verdict should have been in within minutes. Instead we are days into the deliberations.
It’s clear the same brain-dead types making a career out of sewer work in my area also are staffing the criminal justice system, are running the federal and state governments, and are getting together at night for orgies of self-congratulation over their successes.
We are doomed as a nation as long as this ridiculous behavior is tolerated and I’m not optimistic anything will change.
Rant finished.
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