Domestic Infrastructure and National Security

What happens when you mix a paranoid, corporate toady with a Vice President? A failure to recognize that maintenance of domestic infrastructure, like bridges, is a national security issue.

The recent collapse of the highway bridge into the Mississippi River is a reminder of this. It is also a foreshadowing of what is to come if we don't re-direct our national priorities away from funding wars of empire, which enrich a minority of the corporate elite. This infrastructure tragedy is an example of the expense we pay for enriching Bush's campaign donors via largesse to the military/security industrial complex and the oil industry.

Get ready to hear that we need to privatize our infrastructure, because the tax-payer can't afford the billions needed to maintain our highways and bridges. This is another scam; how can it be less expensive to maintain our highways, bridges, drinking water supplies, schools and other basic infrastructure while generating a profit for the private sector? Answer, it can't. That's why it's a scam. Don't fall for it.

It's time to demand that Congress cut back military spending and prioritize our limited for securing our national infrastructure. The links below might help. Tell Congress you want taxes spent on the majority of the people, not the narrow interests of the military industrial complex and oil barrons.

Contact the US House of Representatives

Contact the US Senate