There’s no pork.  Transportation and infrastructure are all encompassing. 

“Well done, government. You’re doing a great job of instilling trust in yourself among the common folk.”

What pork?

It also helps that they have a population that isn’t allergic to taxation

• $174 billion in electric vehicle investments

Yes, because these are the conditions that we should expect for a global superpower.

Too bad the infrastructure used by the nation to maintain a functioning economy and sustain the lives of the people located there is more than just roads & bridges and nearly all of it is in piss poor shape.

Taxes are high in some countries, but they have bridges that are not broken, nice roads, free higher education and universal healthcare.... 

Yup.  And they can get a look at the bridge while they’re falling.

Absolutely, yes.

If an inspector is forced by his superiors to fudge reports and he doesn’t report it up the chain or to the appropriate authorities, then he deserves to be fired and lose his professional license.

Their self-interest just balances out against Republicans’ reckless cost-cutting.

Fuck that. Just throw ‘em off.

I have a good friend who’s a health inspector for the State of Arkansas, and let’s just say that while he’s excellent at his job, the state has cut budgets and staffing to the degree that his backlog is literally years long. I can’t imagine engineering inspectors have it any better. All in the name of Fuck you, I do…

Is that before or after we drop them off at a Bangladeshi sweatshop without their passports until they approve a minimum wage hike?

Start by driving Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy back and forth across the bridge on top of dump truck remotely controlled by Joe Biden, until the beam drops 2 inches and let’s see how long it takes to approve a real infrastructure bill.

I really recommend you avoid watching a lot of fantasy movies produced by the domestic Chinese and Japanese film industries if you think “Asian mysticism pastiche” is a problem.

Michelle Yeoh would have been the best choice.

My only beef with this stance and with this issue is that Swinton is an unusual on screen presence who sort of carries around a lot of mystical ‘ancient one’ energy. Besides race, she was well cast.

Is there a tibetan actor who could’ve done that? Probably- and if you were just trying for the general region’s…

Ya know, with things hopefully wrapping up in Afghanistan soon, the US military is going to find itself with a surplus of trained drones, pilots, and missiles.