Time to Bridge the Gap with Bridges falling down

 

 The cost for repairing and replacing our decaying bridges has added up to $3.6 Trillion, Inflation has increased the cost for repair and upkeep of our nations bridges that are in dire need of maintenance.
While congress fights in bipartisan bridges are in danger of collapsing and taking lives in the process due to state and federal neglect.

If we are going to get our bridges replaced, we are going to have to double the pay for bridge inspectors. I think it is insulting to pay $18/hr for a job that requires a civil engineering background. This job of bridge inspectors should be paid $30-$40/hr starting to draw people into this field that desperately needs people. It will be difficult to find people for civil engineering jobs if the pay has not gone up in 30 years. Civil engineers were paid 62,000 in the 1990's, they should be paid $120,000 due to COLA and higher living expenses.

Since big corporations don't pay taxes and 1/3 of budget is Social Security, 1/3 Medicare, and 1/6 Defense, we have 1/6 left for everything else.  Defense should be cut by 1/2 for 4 years to spend the $3/6 Trillion  to repair America. Entropy breaks down bridges, the longer we delay the more expense it will be to repair our nations bridges, due to metal fatigue, entropy, and higher labor costs. We could employ hundreds of thousands in the civil engineering sector to fix this issue, then institute a national annual program to repair all of them in order of danger of collapse.

So maybe it is time for an asset tax on corporations, to pay for these projects, it is time they share their good fortune with the that has allowed Fortune 100 companies to prosper.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-infrastructure-bridges/one-in-ten-u-s-bridges-in-urgent-need-of-repair-report-idUSBREA3N1FQ20140424https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-infrastructure-bridges/one-in-ten-u-s-bridges-in-urgent-need-of-repair-report-idUSBREA3N1FQ20140424

References

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/15/us/bridge-collapse-history-trnd/index.html

https://www.wired.com/2015/01/time-fix-americas-infrastructure-heres-start/

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/01/us/chattanooga-bridge-collapse/index.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-infrastructure-bridges/one-in-ten-u-s-bridges-in-urgent-need-of-repair-report-idUSBREA3N1FQ20140424

https://www.salaryexpert.com/salary/job/bridge-inspector/united-states

https://www1.salary.com/Civil-Engineer-I-Salary.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/15/us/bridge-collapse-history-trnd/index.html

Water is the Lifeblood of a Country's People - Tap Water Poisoning

Imagine a 240 year old house, that need new windows, new pipes, new insulation, new wiring, and paint job, is surrounded by a 50 foot metal electrified fence controlled by a super computer in the basement, next to a 200 year old water heater, with cobwebs all around.
This is the  United States of America.
We spend so much money on the military but all our infrastructure is crumbling all around it.
   
People have only thought about their tap water after Flint Michigan, no I take that back, people have been buying bottled water for years because they don't trust their tap water. Why didn't all these people that don't use tap water complain to their city and states to have action taken.
I think it is because millions of people feel that our Congressmen don't listen to us anymore. We pay monthly water bills, and we receive hard water that is bad for the  skin, and tap water that is lethal to our tropical fish because of extremely high Ammonia contents.
Why should we have to pay for water that is contaminated, that is hard water with Ammonia in the water, our children drink. There should be a law that any house that is sold has a total house water filtration system installed since we can no longer trust our water treatment companies anymore

       People complain about contaminated stream water but water treatment plants have not be rebuild or expanded in most cities. Houston is breaking ground on a new water treatment plant, long overdue.
Not only is the water treatment plants unable to meet the demand of the cities they were built over 50 years ago at accomodate a fraction of the people today.
I see a list of only 20 new water treatment plants being build for 320 million people. Something is wrong with this picture.

You elected people to Congress who care 0% for the environment, allow water treatment and release standards has been slacked. But, why does corporations want to kill Americans with unsafe drinking and bathing water. You don't kill customers. lower profits with dead customers.
When we should be suing all all state Capital for criminal negligence. A five month investigation by the Associated Press has discovered that small quantities of drugs, including antibiotics, sex hormones, and anti-seizure compounds, have been found in public drinking water supplied to over 40 million Americans across the US.

Every household should be law be allowed to deduct 100% of the cost of a water treatment system for their entire house. Such systems as Aquasana and a few others remain almost all contamination from drinking water which have been highly rated for water treatment should be mandated before selling any  house in any city, and in any state. I am not advertising a specific water treatment system, but hoping people will think about this madness.  We pay for water that is hazardous to drink.
WE spend $700 billion on defense but only a fraction of that for defense of our drinking water and water treatment plants.
No new Aquaducts anywhere in this country to increase the flow of fresh water to areas of the country that need. Maybe our Congress needs to read about how the Roman Empire had far superior Aquaducts over 2000 years ago that we have today in the United States.


References:
https://www.aquasana.com/whole-house-water-filters

https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2009/04/tons_of_released_drugs_taint_u.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/09/ST2008030901877.html?noredirect=on

https://www.foxnews.com/story/study-finds-traces-of-drugs-in-drinking-water-in-24-major-u-s-regions


https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/100038.php

https://www.wateronline.com/doc/houston-breaks-ground-on-world-s-largest-water-treatment-plant-0001

https://www.constructconnect.com/blog/economy/20-major-upcoming-water-treatment-plant-manufacturing-warehousing-construction-projects-u-s-october-2017/