America’s Crumbling Infrastructure | 60 Minutes Archive
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- Опубликовано: 10 мар 2022
- In 2014, 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft reported on America’s crumbling infrastructure and the struggle to fund urgently needed projects.
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America is like that mom/wife whose in everybody else's business while her own home is a wreck.
Well when America reduces iraq and Afghanistan to rubbish it deserves to get rubbished .
You reap what you sow so enjoy
She has a short term distraction plan to fight against the corruption by the few but its rotten to the core and refuse to change, making war after war supported by the western media that don't provide true information, only lies and the delusions of their greatness but not revealing the thousands killed in war crimes in Iraq etc. There is truly a neglection of a scale inflicted on the American people for which we can't blame the govt fot the military has wrested power from the democratically elected govt. My heart goes to the good Americans who are struggling to pay their rents, food, transport, healthcare etc
Hope you vote for the right politicians!
america is the world’s number 1 busybody invading afghanistan in 2001 and spent $2,200,000,000,000 in that military misadventure and lost the fighting with afghans in 2021
Successive american governments have the thinking that invading asian countries would not elicit global outrage as asian lives are expendable.
asian lives matters.
WHY ALL E THINGS HAVE BECOME TOFU, NEARLY TO E POINT OF COLLAPSE?
America is like a homeless bum flexing with a gucci belt.
“I don’t want to say they’re unsafe, but they’re dangerous”. 😂 I spit my tea out over that.
😅
If something is dangerous, then it's unsafe. WTF is he trying to say?
@@camthesaxman3387 worse than unsafe
he shouldn't have said "but"
I talked to a lady who’s husband works on bridges. She said “you would never go on a bridge if you knew how bad they were”.
Well this doesn't help my fear of bridges at all. I always knew I was right to be scared of them
@@ambercollier2064 Bridges are excellent safe technology, but they need to be maintained.
Correctamundo 💯
We are a lot of the problem because we demand snow free roads.
@Helicopter Dad! YOU SUCK
When the US government spends money to fight battles in other countries, why not spend money to build safe bridges and roads for the people?
It's going against "help yourself first then only others"
The United States spent a few trillion dollars in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The military spending reached 750 billion dollars last year. 400 billion dollars will be given to Ukraine.
The United States has 580 thousand homeless people last year. The national debt of the US reached 30 trillion dol
lars.
They are giving more money to Ukraine than asked for, and then add more on top of that.
I hear its ok, because they print the money, genuine greenback, as much as they want, and sent them over on pallets like flyers.
Cuz infrastructure takes more than 4 or 8 years to complete, which means does not help election.
@@TheRedland284
That may help the opposition party.
That is mainly all the money we spent on wars. First Afghanistan, before it was finished, another war In Iraq, then Libya, then Syria. We just quit Afghan extremely embarrassingly, now just half a year later, we are in a indirect war with Russia. Now we are on hook for the the military aid and potential huge reconstruction cost. The politicians can’t stop fighting wars, but have nothing for infrastructure, that will be how the empire comes to an end. The selfish politicians destroyed the country.
Don't forget Panamá and Ukraine
@@carlosw1687 800 MILLION just yesterday ....It's disgusting
That why I voted for Democrat.
Republicans talk a lot and done very little, they like to fight go wars to other countries and republican politicians work party, powers and wealthy first not for country first.
You will hate and terminate the enemies of Israel or you are a traitor!
The US has been on life support for decades. Who has benefitted from this? The top 1 percent that's who! The counter revolution has been a stupendous success
America is a developed country based on the infrastructure developed in the past
There's parts of America that look more like a 3rd world country
That's what happens when you manipulate the system to just pay a handful of people
You mean the millions who live cradle to grave off the teet of big government?
"I don't want to say they're unsafe but they're dangerous." Then you just said they're unsafe!
Exactly. .
@@inkybz 'Yet practically?' Maybe choose something that isn't mutually exclusive to the issue at hand. .
@@inkybz A gun is dangerous if it's not properly maintained, properly stored or handled by someone not trained to use it. These bridges are falling apart so they are both not safe and dangerous.
That is his point. They are unsafe. He was making a point.
@@SamanthaBellerson It sounded more like he was contradicting himself.
Our infrastructure in on par with our healthcar system.
Yep, and the republicans want to scrap it and replace it with nothing...
Health care could be fixed but both sides don't want to make hard decisions. Put insurance companies, hospitals and Doctors in a room and tell them fix it or we will! Not being able to sue Doctors would bring down cost and over charging insurance companies harts all of us .
Oh, then it's that bad.
Uk looking like a great alternative right now.
10 years ago Seattle passed a levy to repair its older bridges. Present day none of that money has been spent on infrastructure. It went “elsewhere”. It’s not lack of money is lack of political will to spend the money in the right spot. The west Seattle bridge is closed for 2 years due to deferred maintenance Money was available but it went “elsewhere”.
Amen, goverment miss spending and missapropriating funds is the real problem.
They rather spent them on weapons and wars.. looks like American livelyhood is not the main priority of the American government, they just want your vote in order to stay in the freedom country category.
The infrastructure problem is all politics. The bidding, the backroom deals and the inflated prices and on and on. You get a road or bridge that is needed so it is calculated but before a shovel full of dirt is moved the project is already over cost due to everyone getting their fingers in the pie. It's so bad now that billions simply disappear before anything gets started. It's all graff and corruption.
If only there was a technology like blockchain that could help.
Just like in Mexico or I should say..."in the third world".
Your spot on, one of my jobs is as a federal gov sub-contractor, in this job I make a stupid amount of $, at first I thought “this is nonsense,”but why would I say or do anything to mess it up.”
@@JK-gu3tl or an auditor.
This is true. Corruption has always been an issue.
We spent $300m/day for 20 years, in Afghanistan. Most of it went to well-connected-good-ole- boy network-NO-BID "Military" Contractors.
Yap that's what republicans and bush did
This country is in trouble . . . We are being governed by fools .
I remember driving by Philadelphia and seeing the roads in deplorable conditions , that was more than 10 years ago . . . . We are allowing these fools to slowly cripple this country .
We elect them so who r the fools?
Yes.There are abundant FUND in PIG's hand. Please take it back, it would be WIN-WIN-WIN such as soros paying for burning here for 20 years ++
Bangkok Sharing please elaborate, I do not know what u r trying to say.
Bangkok Sharing what I was indirectly alluding to was the fact that democrats and republicans hate, despise and distrust fellow Americans who r in the other party so much more that is necessary and mostly ignore the fact that the elected officials in both parties ignore the voters and mostly act in their own self interest instead of what is good for the USA. In other words, I believe americas should distrust the party officials in their own party more than other Americans because politicians from either party r less concerned about moving usa forward in positive fashion than us voting Americans. Another way of saying this is that the American voters need to look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge that it is our fault that we elect and re-elect so many selfish politicians
Exactly, I’ve driven in many states, you cross a state line and road conditions change at the line, guess what states have the worst roads by far, NY, IL, & HI. all heavily democrat run cities, at least NY & IL can do what Dems do best and blame it on something (the weather) but what’s Hawaii’s excuse ? I’ve never driven in Cali but I bet the streets are crap there too. I do know hawaii and Cali both have railway systems that somehow keep getting millions in funding every year then run out, that’s been going on for 10’or more years now. Democrat voters are fools, voting for corrupt thieves. and will remain clueless to why things are like they are. because they don’t want to be labeled racist
I live in seattle and in 2020 they closed the major bridge, the west seattle bridge, because it was at risk of collapse. They spent a year deciding on whether to repair or replace it and went with a repair plan that will give it another decade. It's still not opened. It's created a detour for anyone needing to get downtown that can be 1 to 4 hours long. Many people have moved out of WS for that reason and businesses have had to close. That's after only 2 years. They said to replace it it would be closed for 10 years. Now imagine if all these bridges started failing and needing replacement. Not only could it be a massive amount of human lives lost but also economic devastation for businesses reliant on those bridges. Better start repairing your bridges!
When you realize this video is ~8 years old..
We passed an infrastructure bill last year that pours billions into these problems
@@darkchocolate3390 you mean the Build Back Better that allocated 2.2 trillion? The one that was massively gutted? Billions won't do much
@@emrandom123 I mean the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that was signed into law last November. That has $1.2 Trillion, the most infrastructure investment since the '50s.
@@emrandom123 thank you red hat GQP
THIS WAS A REPLY TO DARK CHOCOLATE sorry emma c
I don't know of a city in America that was long term planned. They were short term built to try and keep up with growth and expansion. When things are built fast, any kind of things small or huge, there will be errors in design, usage projections, and construction.
This is a huge component of the problem. Get it done quick and keep the budget low is definitely a big problem.
This is a result of the national tradition of "White Flight"!
@@mrlevhil In the cities that is the truth and a huge problem. And, there are severe infrastructure problems in rural America caused by politicians theft of funds.
The wealthy detested planning! Except for planning to zone you out!
Many older cities were built with long term plans but they were also built 100+ years ago when no one had any idea of urban sprawl.
if we cut the spending on our military by half which is around $350 billion (still making us the largest spender in the world) we could make a solid dent in updating our infrastructure.
@Michael Kiefer What do you consider infrastructure? Also if you think I'm a democrat based off of me saying we should cut military spending then you'd be wrong my friend.
@Michael Kiefer Im asking you what you think it means. I'm a Building and Construction Technologies student in college and I'm fully aware as to what infrastructure is
Crumbling democracy, crumbling culture also.
Sad but true.
To be honest, all of us are just stuck waiting for our neighbors to stop electing morons who dont believe in infrastructure spending.
What if the morons don't believe in bloated waste?
Or else it's time to shame them into doing something For The People.
Have the guts and say it.. THE GOP!!!! They elect people in office who have NEVER left their backward cities and send those to congress.. WTF does someone like that know about international politics much much more how to compete with other nations? I swear a monkey could win a congressional seat in a GOP town, just say something about Jesus and guns..
@@carolmiller5713 Anything with socialist element won't work with the price gouging capitalists & their crony politicians. They want their "democratic" rights to plunder the common peoples - and they would defend it vigorously even if it brings the country to it's knees before they realize they have no leadership vision.
@@carolmiller5713 How can we shame them? I live in Pittsburgh where that bridge collapsed a couple months ago and then the top of my street collapsed. Before they gave examples I knew Pgh was going to be top of the list. Really scary. To get anywhere you have to cross SOME bridge.
I remember a tv show called "Inspector America" back in like 2011 or so..showed all sorts of infrastructure issues everywhere..needless to say it wasn't around very long :/
Ferrelx did the show collapse and get canceled, or was it just full of plotholes?
@@jschuler53 good one
When you realize this is 10 years old and nothing has been done to fix the infrastructure. Because taxing the super rich would make too much sense.
The rich, upper middle class and super rich pay between 60-80% of the taxes. They are like 20-30% of the population. Also these billionaires DONT HAVE THE MONEY. If you managed to extract ALL their wealth (most of it in stocks that would plummet if you did that) you couldn’t squeeze them for maybe 2-4 trillion dollars THATS THE ANUAL US BUDGET
Climate, health care, inequality, transportation... Nothing. Disarming-. Nothing. Borders that never open-. Nothing.
@Michael Kiefer I bet there's still a government responsibility there, Even if it's mislabeled-. Not infrastructure, human rights.
Covering the cost of infrastructure maintenance solely onto the gas tax will ensure the burden falls solely on to the middle class...no wonder the GOP congressmen didn't want to comment...
Jesus this video is almost a decade old and it’s still a problem
It's almost entirely due to tax cuts for corporations and the ultra-rich. In my lifetime (I'm 59) the top federal tax rate was 91% and there was still a BOATLOAD of obscenely rich people...
And America built a cross-country highway system (in a deal with Ford Motor Co but that was a win/win.)
No, it’s 100% not. You think the government having more $ will make any difference…. ?? If they take more $ they will just keep and waste more.. period.
@@bee4472 Well there's the concrete data point I've been looking for
Nope.....most American money goes to weapons of mass destructions and programs sabotaging other nations.
@@fudhater8592 LOL. Let's take some logic courses.
"Until billionaires and corporations pay their FAIR SHARE of taxes, we’ll never have enough money for infrastructure." - Me. This should be screamed from the rooftops. Apple claims its headquarters is in Ireland for tax purposes, but its 8-billion-dollar "flying saucer" campus for its corporate management and brain trust to work at is a slap in the face to our country, and this corporation isn't alone. A middle-class family shouldn't pay more in taxes, relative to their wealth and income than a multi-millionaire family. A small family business shouldn't pay more in taxes, relative to their valuation and profits than Ebay, Amazon and Microsoft combined. If you enjoy the benefits of living and working in America, help pay for it !
"pay their FAIR SHARE" is a result of political propganda. The government has plenty of money and as we see today they can just print money when they want more of it. The real thing should be spending acccountability because the money budgeted for infrastructure flows somewhere else.
Money has no relevance on the issue, they just spent a trillion on ‘infrastructure’ and ear marked less than 10% of it for what anyone even associates with that word. Meaning they just turned their nose up at $900 billion dollars that would have fixed the problem if efficiently spent. Yell at the sky about taxes… it will always be irrelevant when they misappropriate 90% of every tax dollar.
Millionaires and billionaires pay way too many taxes corporations pay way too many taxes that's what's driving down wages causing companies to go overseas and hindering our economic growth
The government is the issue all of their wasteful spending. Learn to read and you can read the bills for yourself all they are are pork bills. Why are we sending millions of dollars to Pakistan for gender studies why are we sending billions of dollars to Egypt
Why are we spending millions and millions of dollars on Nancy pelosi's tunnel of Love. Why are we spending millions and millions of dollars to research fish eggs hatching all under the guise of covid relief.
@@nirus9599 buses and trains, still need to go over bridges... Getting rid of the car mentality doesn't really fix that. Besides, the US is huge, you could sit most of Europe in it, and there are pockets of people living all over the place in very diverse terrains, in remote locations. Those are the people that live out on farms that feed the country, factories, plants, facilities, that aren't practical to have in urban centers. Building the kind of transportation network to connect all those people isn't really plausible. They just barely got the interstate highway built, and that took decades. Only finished in the 90s. And they only did that for military strategic access to the entire country... Don't blame it on suburbs either... many of these places are real towns that have existed since the 1800s along side the urban cities. Besides that, who wants to be stacked on top of each other in apartment buildings. All 330 million citizens? Kind of silly to have all this land and not use it. Now should the government stop wasting money on the military... yes. But no matter who you elect, they will still do what they want, and the Federal government is seriously not gonna give up military spending, and they certainly don't ask regular citizens to approve their military budget, lol. That's laughable. What do you think this is, a democracy....
I just googled it and apples hq is in Cupertino california. They're European/African sub HQ resides in Ireland
Just check out the many videos on homeless people in the U.S's own backyard. It is unbelievable but it makes me cry. How on earth a once superpower can think of spending so much money on fightings, killings, destruction but completely neglected its own people's welfare, infrastructure, racist issues, guns... It's not just sad but real tragic!
Because of capipism it runs on it's the finul stage of imperaism and because the mulitary complex doing it do.
We need to fix those bridges. There are millions of Americans living under them
We can always find the money for our military, but not for roads and bridges? How do they expect all those military personnel and mechanical parts to move across the country?
Well, they are thinking strategically, if there is no infrastructure to transport, an invading army will not be able to move.
😂😂😂
@R Reed yes but the military doesn’t need that much money though
Well the military spending isn't for the US. It's for the hundreds of bases US owns around the world. It's for all the wars US gets involved around the world. It's for the military covert operations and spys and upkeep of of them.
Besides if the US was ever attacked the enemy won't be able to move anywhere so it's easy picking for US drones.
It's a good strategy which is already proving itself in Ukraine today.
@R Reed what? The army Corp of engineers builds like 2% of our bridges
As long as it cost 4 or 5 times the money to build or repair our infrastructure than it cost in other developed countries we will never catch up.
Fast forward 8 years and our gov and our infrastructure are just getting worse....
The crumbling of our Fourth Estate is the most damaging part of our deterioration.
Until billionaires and corporations pay their FAIR SHARE of taxes, we’ll never have enough money for infrastructure.
even if billionaires and corporations pay their fair share its still not enough money to fix our infrastructures.Let's not blame those who work hard all their lives to become millionaires,billionaires,we can't punish successful citizen,blame our government who has zero knowledge of management
That's not going to happen in our lifetimes, unfortunately. Except for about 6-7 members of congress, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM takes bribes from the very people that need to have their taxes raised so it never gets done. Until we get money out of politics, nothing will change.
@@raymombrun5549 a good portion people that are billionaires rarely work hard for their money, a good portion are born into it because of generational wealth.
@@gorgthesalty
Ok Comrade 👌
Thats not true... majority of industrial, electrical, construction, civil, mechanical engineering majors in universities are foreign. They rather contribute what they learned in the US to their own country.
Misspending and fraud have gotten us in this position. Just think about all the federal spending that has gone into an area through the Transportation Planning Organization or the government bonds that have been pulled.
Why not "nationalize" all of our natural resources as they should have been from the beginning of the industrial revolution? All of the mining companies, all of the oil companies, would have to pay royalties to the American people. Kaddafi did exactly that. All Libyans shared in the profits made by these corporations. They had free water, free education, free healthcare, and all newlyweds received a wedding gift of $50K towards the construction of a new home. The result was the US had him killed. Our corporate government could not afford that idea to catching on here.
*what the reporter refuses to acknowledge is that almost all that high speed rail are in China*
Well, now, the title of this video is "America’s Crumbling Infrastructure," which justify the anchor and the reporters to exclude anything that tells the reality and truth about "China's infrastructure."
This is ultimately what happens when you base your infrastructure around cars.
They transport few people, but need extreme amounts of space, concrete, pavement, wider bridges,....
All that needs maintenance, much more than if the transit system were based around alternatives like public transit, bikes and walking.
No European country has these problems, not even poor Eastern Europe.
Salt affects the road and steel...that is why..most of US gets hit hard with snow. And also we people drive because our country is wide.
It's true, but Americans will never see it. European cities are far better designed.
They should watch Not Just Bikes which explains why their sprawling suburban car oriented development is not affordable.
Europe is small compared to the U.S, public transportation cost is extremely high and the culture is different here. Americans prefer their own cars and personal space. I drive a American muscle car and I would never trade it for a bus with weird nasty people in it that takes much longer to get somewhere.
People wanted to live in suburbs,not in dense urban apartment buildings. In hindsight, it has serious deficiencies.
So trains and buses don't need extreme amounts of space and concrete, steel, tear through green metro spaces... Do you have any idea of the scale of the US? Most of Europe would fit inside and still have room for neighbors. That requires cars. Here's where a little history lesson is in order: Partially it does have something to do with the car industry, but before cars, it was very hard to travel across the US. What rail we had was hard to build because of the terrain. Traveling from farms to the cities requires cars, and it made it very easily for normal folks to do over rugged terrain that wasn't feasible to connect to the railways. Besides the farm land, there are industries that cannot be located in major residentials areas, and just plain people who want a house, and not to be crammed inside of an apartment. We are not Europe, and why is it that Europeans can't accept the fact that not everyone in the world wants to be like them? It's a very Eurocentric colonizing point of view. And I've watched Not Just Bikes. While I agree with some things, it's not what everyone wants. And that is ok. It still doesn't solve the fact that individual states aren't maintaining their infrastructure...
It’s hard to agree on a budget for infrastructure that will foster the country’s development. But when it comes to war funding, there’s suddenly unanimous agreement. Who’re we fooling?
Seen "Infrastructure Weak! - SOME MORE NEWS"?
And to fix them it would cost $7 billion dollars, yet the US government has $13.5 billion to send to the Ukranians for humanitarian aid, LMFAO!
What are you talking about, the US government just passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed by Biden months ago. It's fixing the infrastructure, lol.
@@danielqvsr3949 the US is in debt to the tune of $29 trillion and counting thanks to uncontrolled spending habits of both parties since 2000, I wish I had the time to post a video showing the deteriorating roads bridges and highways where I live!
@@mckcpaul1 im sure cutting more taxes will help the deficit and more wall street mortage lending
Know is 80 billion to Ukraine
60 billion congress want to send to Ukraine. Lmao.
Joe Mancin and every single Republican decided the infrastructure bill wasn’t worth voting a yes.
How is that inflation working out for ya?
Because those are the poverty (red) states. Most of the people barely make minimum wage so to raise taxes for those projects would cost them their office.
The infrastructure will still need to be upgraded, inflation or not. This should be a non partisan issue.
@@taipizzalord4463 Can we at least do it efficiently? It seems we have an infrastructure boondoggle every 3 years.
@@carolmiller5713 I live in mainly Ky, we have a democrat governor. this “poverty state” BS is misleading, the reason many people make less is because it costs much less to live i those states, then people foolishly say “those are the poor states, I’ve also live in Hawaii, NY and Fla, and if living in KY where having a 5000 sq ft house for the same price as a 1000 sq ft in NY, Hawaii or Cali makes you poor then I guess I’ll just be in poverty in my 8 bedroom house.
The opportunities are the same here as anywhere else. The government doesn’t control how much you make, just how much they take from you.
*Cannabis taxes could help resolve this issue. Billions not just millions.*
Support marijuana decriminalization and legalization. You should have the right to choose, even if you don't agree with cannabis consumption.
Afraid that legalized pot may act as a wider, more heavily traveled bridge to more dangerous drugs by our youth. Not interested in making their youth potentially more dangerous. If one is a parent, Reward seems to be outweighed by risk
@@michaelboano7183 That's a fallacy. *Cannabis is not a gateway drug. Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals are gateway drugs.*
_Scientific research provides the evidence for that._ ✌️
Left Earth did u miss my wording? “May”, “potentially”. Everything u mentioned is also probably a gateway drug. U can cite the research if u want. I will read it. Until then u have just made a hollow argument, a common occurrence on social media.
@@michaelboano7183 No, you are misunderstood. Have a nice day.
Left Earth u just have no desire for intelligent discussion, u r hopeless until u overcome your anger or other inhibitions. Good luck
Many years ago I went on a field trip to Pennsylvania, the roads were in terrible condition.
Unfortunately, it is not only the bridges.
Where I'm from, the roads are in better condition than in most other places in the us.
The roads here are not even that great to begin with, that just shows how bad the situation is.
(I'm not from Arizona, I'm from the East Coast)
Just a reminder that this clip is from eight years ago and the new infrastructure bill is addressing a lot of these problems.
JY. Uh huh.
This is from 2014. So glad that everything is on the right track 8 years later! USA USA. NUMBER 1🤬
Oh I didn't realize that , I thought this was a current episode or they would have shown the big double red bus that fell down with the Pgh bridge when it collapsed a couple of months ago. Biden came and stood at the precipice and used Pgh as evidence. He pointed to the fallen bus and said, SEE, we have a problem. So embarrassing to be the evidence our president uses to get his infrastructure passed. How much money does the US have anyway? After this last package to Ukraine I thought we spent it all.
Railroad bridges are overall in a much safer state than other bridges right now. If i remember right they’re rated B+ in comparison to the D rating of roadway bridges. Infrastructure needs to be brought up more often.
D+ average overall for everything right now.....
The main reason is that the railroad companies are responsible for them
I noticed this immediately upon moving to PA. Growing up in NJ you have all the tolls but you always see them working on the roads & bridges. PennDot is terrible. I’m not even in the city & roads are closed for years.
There's a stretch of the PA Turnpike near Pittsburgh that is being repaired, it will have all new bridges and repaved roadways. Most of the pike, however, is neglected. The Alleghany tunnel, until recently, had very poor lighting. All the current tunnels on that road need to be replaced. In Breezewood, a hotel along the highway burned to the ground in 2019, and it has not been cleared away. Whenever I get on to the turnpike in Breezewood I see a half mile long line of logging trucks, tankers, mobile chapels, car carriers and more that get hung up at the only traffic light on the highway between Baltimore and Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania has the best semi trucks in the country so I can't complain tho). The Ohio turnpike is even worse, one section at Boston heights has been under continuous construction since at least 2008 and there's still tornado debris in the grass at the Newton Falls toll.
Well parts of the New York Thruway are not in the best of shape especially some of the rural stretches are rough and rutted and they just patch the potholes every year.
Sheila the very mention of Penn Dot makes me nervous. In PA they're more like this evil enforcer of mundane stuff like parking tickets and car registration and fine you if you don't have car insurance. Never have I heard anyone say, oh that road looks really bad, we should tell Penn Dot. Like they care.
@@jschuler53 Exactly. I’m in Bucks Co. Very charming but it really is like living in olden times. Bridge out, good luck finding your way. Over the years River Rd has been closed in chunks for years. Insane
@@jschuler53 Penndot seems to care more about replacing their employees with machines than actually fixing the road imo
Total US aid to other countries in 2020 alone = $51.05 billion. ONE YEAR! Don't tell me we don't have the money to fix the infrastructure.
TOTAL US MONEY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE LAW = 1.5 TRILLION DOLLARS. Shut up man.
Most of the aids are not in the form of cash. They are contracts for US-based contractors to "help" those foreign countries so the money actually went to US companies linked to the politicians.
@@danielqvsr3949 China's recent infrastructure plan is 2.3 trillion dollars
I love how are all options are talked about , except spending less on Offense, I mean Defense. Approving 750 Bn$ for Pentagon takes them 5 minutes, but fixing bridges can't even be discussed.
Do you know why? Money spending in making weapons will benefit the arm manufacturers such as Lockheed. Your Congressmen will benefit from the arms manufacturers too.
The government: Interesting problem… lemme just boost military spending real quick.
Seen "Infrastructure Weak! - SOME MORE NEWS"?
The State of Pennsylvania Elected Officials diverted over "Four Billion Dollars " over the past several years that was to go to maintenance of their highways and bridges, but instead purchased military arms for the police departments in their states. So it's hard to feel any sympathy for the citizens of this state if they don't hold their representatives to account for their malfeasance.
Washington state gave Amazon our cities sales tax to help them build warehouses.
Lyslie Hey PA here, we are desperately trying to get them to fix it. It;s the same old story, the politicians won't allocate the money.
@@jschuler53
When people believe in absurdities, such as white supremacy and bigotry ,or Trump won in 2020. they will commit atrocities.
That four billion went to arming the Right Wing Militas in Pennsylvania.
@@jschuler53 old story. People like Governor Schappe who don't mind a whole lotta trucks barrelling through, don't mind a whole lot of collateral damage.
How about all the money just given to Ukraine
No kidding.
They gave 5 billion to meddle in ukraine election in 2014 which led to the current crisis
Just imagine all the time, money, resources that US govt (totally corrupted) could have spent fixing america, but instead as we all know throughou its short history, has been spent on wars, chaos, genocides, all around the world. Its govt totally devoid of a soul always seeking to create foes at every corners of the world.
Worked as an engineering consultant mainly in Europe but worked in NYC for a decade. The difference in infrastructure investment between the US and Europe is incredible. 70 years ago the US had the greatest transport systems on the planet bar none. Some African cities have better ones now. No disrespect to Africa.
This is what happens when a country sends a vast amount of its revenue to other foreign nations, outsources its own jobs to foreign nations instead of keeping that money circulating within its own economy and allows greedy, corrupt politicians and businessmen to pocket billions in profit without paying their share of taxes.
Instead of showing us an archived story, why can't you update the subject? What's going on Now!!!! Is our infrastructure safe?
I remember old segments called "THE FLEECING OF AMERICA" way back in the 1980s. And we are just now waking up. Maybe we should re air those.
yet Congress approved $13.6 billions in AID for Ukraine, while our roads and bridges deteriorate.
You are so ignorant that you don't know the US just approved a 1.5 Trillion dollars in november to fix our roads and bridges, signed into law by president Biden: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_Jobs_Act
The country is so distracted by the internet, video games, job cohorts, and their own electronic “social” network that there is no common good or common reality anymore. So things like crumbling infrastructure get lost in the shuffle. Without action from an honest, duty bound Congress and government which no longer exists things are only going to get worse and worse.
You deliberately left out "foreign forever wars"
US foreign policy is the reason.
You have a great point but...i'm very sure there's many many other things that the people are being distracted by. Small things like video games probably don't play a very big role. There's so much more chaos, confusion, and delusion going on in the current world besides just cell phones and video games
I thought the toll meant net was supposed to be for infrastructure. Taxes should not have to be raised on the citizens. Their has to be investigations done as to where that money goes. I feel their is a lot of corruption going on here.
Tolls are meant to pay off the construction costs of a road not maintain them(even though some tolls stay up after the road has been paid off which ends up going elsewhere). Also you’d be surprised how much corruption there is in the US. The only difference is it happens in broad daylight so many people ignore it because their so open with it (example being insider trading for politicians).
@@beutifolmonkeh8861 , Nancy Pelosi thinks it’s fair that politicians are allowed to trade which is why her husband and herself became so wealthy because she would give him all the insider trading tips. All the politicians go into office as middle class citizens and become millionaires in a short period of time. As far as the toll money from the bridges go their is plenty of money from tolls everyday to fix the roads and bridges. Their is definitely corruption going on with that money also.
@@shamrock8561 bingo
I have known people afraid to travel across bridges.
Money isn’t the problem, it’s how the money is used and whether it is used efficiently. I bet you have many government employees responsible for fixing these road playing with their fingers on high wages
It's like buying a new car and never ever perform any maintenance on the car. How long would the car keep running trouble free?
What happened to all the fed and gas tax money? Answer that and you will find the problem
Any condo board member who has had bids for contracted work knows construction and bidding is a racket. They bid for cushioning problems and contracts written in a way that allows them to have as much time as they want to do the job and they often do not have deadlines. They say they won’t sign a contract if it had those things. So they get you by the balls with supply and demand
Notice how they never tell us how much money is raised every year from the gasoline tax or where it all goes.... Their answer is ALWAYS "we need more (of your) money!!!"
They literally addressed it in the video. The gas tax funding revenue has gotten too small to solve the problems because they kept getting bigger.
That is public record actually, and it is addressed in the video.
I've lived in several states and I've never seen as many water main breaks than I do in Pennsylvania. It's egregious
John, OMG just tonight I went on a little walk around the neighborhood in PA. Everywhere the road is all marked up by the Water company bc water mains break constantly and that damages the roads.
Remember Roman empire , history always repeats itself.
Actually, roman infrastructure was built amazingly strong. Keep in mind that some is still used today. Rome didn't fall because of its infrastructure
Anglos were the Barbarian Invaders who destroyed the Roman Empire and stole their identity and history.
i think a better way to get the money is to.
1. legalize and decriminalize drugs and control and sell like what was done with alcohol after the prohibition ended 100 years ago.
2. set up massive bitcoin mining operations.
3. work the employees off the clock like walmart did.
4. take a page from flint michegan and shut down the authorities on the state levels and make the local authorities take up the slack.
5. abolish the kickbacks and automatic pay raises.
6. make it considered defense spending
A perfect match for the crumbling morality.
Crumbling everything, really - economy, government, family, etc
An example of which would be...?
@@andyhughes1776 border
Steve, I like your comment and your simple regular name. It's a great metaphor. I agree the snake is finally starting to eat it's own tail. You know the one on the saying, United We Stand, divided we.....well you know.
No money to fix infrastructure but have lof of money to spend on useless wars 😂
Correct, we need to stop useless endless foreign wars and put America First.
Amen Brother !
Rebuilding would create hundreds of thousands of jobs heck millions
If US or this 60 minutes group want to be heard, just put China as comparison to US .. then suddenly all the politician will erupted to respond to this issues..
This country is huge and has the money. We spent 6 billion on ONE aircraft. Start fixing them a few at a time. We did it once, we can do it again.
This pisses me off . Answer me one simple question. Where did they get the money to build bridges and roads in the first place and why can't they do it again ??????
The problem all over the West is that it's too rich. Back when it was industrial the wages were good in construction and it was affordable. There's no money in it now
You changed your priorities, wars
A book I read on the U.S. failing infrastructure pointed out that Americans never paid enough in taxes to support our infrastructure. We all wanted a big car, suburbs, and the freedom of the open road. Instead of investing in public transportation and improving cities. Except too many people and now we have pollution besides.
@@cherryfireice8216 people keep coming back to this suburbs and public transportation, like that solves the problem. Most major US cities have public transportation. The cities or counties control that, so depending on their budgets some are better than others. But... the public transportation goes over those bridges and failing infrastructure as well as cars. So are you accusing the suburbs of not contributing to the taxes for infrastructure? That's not how it works. Suburbs generally have much higher taxes than the urban city. All the suburbs I know of are towns themselves or independent townships. Many are called suburbs but are in fact their own cities. No city pays for the infrastructure of another. But everyone pays State taxes, so the question is why isn't the State allocating funds for the necessary infrastructure?
@@conniekabasharira7084 totally untrue. Since the US entered WW2, the priory of the federal government has always been war. Straight from WW2, to the cold war, to Korea, to Cuba, to Vietnam, to Iran, to Iraq.... It never actually stopped.
They don't want to invest in infrastructure in their own country, but yet send billions abroad to help other countries. No need to raise taxes. Use what you have, by investing in our own. If the politicians weren't so corrupt and greedy more things would get done. They're too busy coming up with the next scheme that will make them and their family and friends rich.
Liquidate the major oil companies who destroyed the rail systems on purpose.
Government doesn't own the oil companies, they can't liquidate something they have no legal right to.
@@Katie-qu9iv In WW2, we discovered that the Germans were perfecting Thorium Reactors which produce no radioactive waste. The oil companies hid this technology. The oil companies became a energy monopoly that the government should have liquidated.
@@rogerray105y the oil companies are run by retards
And what happens when they DO collapse? I’ll tell you, they’ll end up fixing it anyway, but at a greater cost due to the collapse. They will pay the families of the people caught in the collapse. And they will probably be fined for not fixing it when they knew it wasn’t structurally sound.
Reebs that is always the American way. Post factum emergency activity. Always wait until something really bad happens before our leaders take notice and SAY they are going to do something.. Sounds like most people here have lost all faith in our government, no matter what party.
Bridges and over paths are a state problem in each state , help from federal funding is a must , but each state is responsible overall , there is state gas tax as well . Trains are privately owned mostly the responsibility of the owners . Shipping yards are the owners responsibility . The system has become so large and complicated nobody is willing to or wants to be responsible . Go figure !
I'm a union electrician in San Francisco. Went to see China and they make America like playing with legos. China is years ahead in infrastructure. I been in some huge projects. Stadium. Shopping malls and skyscraper but china's mega projects which will probably take America decades but years in China. They work 24 hours. Day crew and night crew. There work is not shabby either. High quality. Projects too hard for America. Guess who they ask. China. Help build the bay Bridge east span. 80% of the construction materials we use comes from China. Copper is super expensive. Price triple last 6 month.
Very true. American airports are an international embarrassment. I'm from Eastern Europe.
You think your union buddies will work the same hours like the Chinese construction crew??
@@ag-bk5wf 8 to 12 hours. We working that much now days.
Big corporation in America where the money are thank God for considering this before a major disasters it needs to get done.
Look at all the tax breaks VW got in Hamilton County Tennessee.
This is well out of order. A so called civilised society with a poor infrastructure. What the heck.
No one knows where the money ($$ 7 billion) is going to come from to fix the bridges (4:20) ? ! Well, cut the DoD spending by 10% and you'll have $70 Billion available . But who dares to demand that ?!
We waste billions and billions of dollars in every bill on stupid things if you read the bills that they pass you will find money spent on absolutely ridiculous things. We could cut taxes in half and still fully fund our infrastructure if we cut off the pork out of all the bills they pass.
@@T-Dog_nation Exactly ! Students in the US take out student loans, about $65 Billion a year. We could have given all the students who needed to apply for the loans free tuitions every single year by cutting a portion of the un-necessary DoD spending. For crying out loud, there were reports that an insane amount of $$ in the DoD spendings were unaccounted for; something like $21 Trillion.
@@chadwickyang7885 Students need to pay for their own education. End all of the government handouts. If people want to take out a loan then they must be required to pay back their own loans. Stop robbing hard working Americans.
@@T-Dog_nation Totally agreed with you on that. Yeah, there's no free lunch so to speak. Even if kids asked you for money, you make sure they take out the trash, so they need to earn it. All I wanted to point out was the government wastage.
Republicans: “but we can’t afford to modernize our infrastructure! Let’s give more tax cuts to millionaires and that will fix all of our problems”!
Also republicans: the pentagon wants 500 more billions? Let’s give them 600!
Cut the money off from the able bodied welfare rats. There, now we have the money for infrastructure and the job creators ( the rich ) get to keep their incentive to keep creating jobs.
The Republicans really are desirous to destroy the planet through global warming. They're the Lemming's party.
idiot, DEMONCRAPS are in power
@@ThatGuy-mu2rr welfare " rats" do you mean the wall Street bankers who about crashed our economy in 2008 and got covered 100% with no personal economic repercussions to themselves?
@@larry6601 If lazy welfare recipients bother you so should the %1 that don’t pay ANY taxes and get what’s basically welfare on top of the ridiculous amount of money they make.
The best thing the Democrats passed is the Infrastructure Package, for the reasons listed in this video. About time!
That was then and what are all these bridges and other infrastructers conditions now?
Great new channel.. show real problems of our country
XTREME, THIS IS CBS 60 MINUTES THEY HAVE BEEN ON THE AIR SINCE 1968!
This is what happened when government was lobbied by car, oil, and insurance companies to develop a culture of car-centric mentality.
That's a bit silly if you think about it. Cars travel over bridges too. So how is a car centric society stopping the government from investing in infrastructure? Oh, so if there was more public transportation they would fix the bridges? Seriously. But wait... there's plenty of light rail and buses in the urban areas that need them. Pittsburgh is an urban area that has one of the best public transportation services I've experienced. It is a very walkable city. And yet, infrastructure is failing...
Use the money for what it's intended, instead of giving it to other things
We sent $10 million to Pakistan for gender studies under the guys of covid relief. Also millions of dollars went to study fish eggs hatching.
I-95 bridge just collapsed 4:40. Prescient.
Thank you 60 minutes not only from my story but my husband story his mother story and our son story with Ben Manzini
3:04 built in 1928, designed to last 50 years, that was 86 years ago.
I think he meant 36
I think he meant since when the bridge was constructed, but yeah, kind of confusing
@@baltazarrodriguez11 You're definitely right.
Money for Tax cuts money for War money NATO money for everybody but America?
yes & it's a bunch of B.S
We in the EU feel sorry for ordinary americans, mind you, we are not far behind you guys. Fact is US is not really a country. It's more like a corporations. As you know corporation has only 1 thing in mind...exploitation of anything and everything for the benefits of its shareholders, basically the greedy class.
God help us all.
the bridge in 11:37 is still here in 2022, according to google map, 8 years after the show was aired
Everyone missing the point, why do we need so many cars? I’m part of a family of 5 and we have 4 cars. Make public transit better and the roads will be less overloaded.
Seen "Infrastructure Weak! - SOME MORE NEWS"?
We are part of this problem. We demand snow free roads. Salt and calcium chloride has done major damage to our roads and bridges. Cut their life span by dozens of years. Look at the salt on the bridge pears.
America needs to get its priorities straight. And I, as a non-american, fear, that if they don't, it will be a safety issue for the whole world. Fund basic democratic institutions better, from education to bridges to health care to renewable energy production. Do not give in to the corporate interest of a few, you have the power, you are 300 million people who are not billionaires. This is the real crisis that gets lost in the constant hassle of democrats vs. republicans. There is no way the US can maintain any special status on the world stage with current politics. You are in danger to fall economically, structurally, politically, and yes, also morally, behind. The US democracy index (EIU, 2021) is already behind Costa Rica, Uruguay and Taiwan, none of which have nearly as long a democratic tradition. The living standards of average people has been highest in the world in the past, now it is in no top 10 list and officially behind Croatia and Oman (World Population Review 2022). The world more and more realizes how morally bankrupt some of the international policies and military missions have been in the last decades. You have alienated all your traditional partners on the world stage by electing Trump, a populist, incompetent hatemonger and pathological liar. For me, these bridges are a symbol of how the USA lose their connection to reality, future prosperity and the rest of the world - but also a sign of how basic some of the steps can be to claw back. Build a bridge. Raise taxes a little bit for rich people to fund good education for everyone. Adopt a proper system of health insurance like any sane country in the world. Elect your president in a system where every vote just counts the same and the candidate with the highest total number of votes wins. Some things are not difficult in concept, you just have to rally people behind the necessary reforms.
Loved reading this!!! You are completely correct! May I ask what country you're from?
The majority of the people it seems have gotten used to uncle Sam holding their hand, buying their groceries, paying 2 to 3 times more than their weekly check to NOT work and on and on and on..... This country will never be able to get anywhere close to where it once was until the free ride ends. It's a real shame. I too am curious as to what country you call home.
Agree with most of your points. I think socially we’re a bunch of addicts. Social media is the american dream, but it creates lazy “activists” who provide no value to the society. They only consume. More and more. The “system” is never a substitution for a healthy population
I have read many such comments, an astute observation indeed and very true.
Fact of the matter is you are assuming that US politicians /govt are sane entities. The truth couldn't have been weirder. Everybody outside US can see the trajectory the US is headed, self and global destructions (just study its geopolitical strategies and its obsession in creating politicial foes all around the world).
Its corrupt systems are designed to protect each other, so any changes to status quo will be almost impossible, thus I can only wish them good luck, they are gonna need a revolution for anything to change in the US.
Absolutely agreed and the priority for the US rn should be more dense urban housing, public transport, less car dependency and the most important the messed up health care in the US every other developed nation in this world has universal health care except of the US
NYC, when Bloomberg was Mayor, "replaced" the Willis Ave Bridge, a "Swing Bridge" that was built in 1901 across the Harlem River. It was built in the Port of Coeymans, 10 miles South of Albany, TOTALLY American Steel, shipped on 2 barges that were welded together 114 miles down the Hudson river. They floated it around lower Manhattan and up the East river having to open other bridges so it could pass. They also changed the roadways on both ends, to deal with 21st century traffic.
By the time they were done, it opened on October 2nd 2010, it actually cost less and took less time then they thought it would.
2017 they opened a new bridge across the Hudson River to replace the old Tappen Zee Bridge. .
We HAVE the technology, they just need to get their @#@# together, stop screwing around and DO it.
Good old Andy. Andy Herman, the past President of my organization. The, “American Society Of Civil Engineers”. You can see this part of Andy starting his tour with him in the society’s helicopter at 2:27
This is what happens when you occupy the mideast for the last 20 years and you spend $6 trillion and counting on two wars of choice, send Dubya and Cheney and 535 politicians in Washington a thank you card, LMFAO!
There’s money for war
But there's never a shortage of money for the military industrial complex and handouts to big business.
I'm deciding where I should move: Southeast Asia or Switzerland.