"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
From Minneapolis:
I've read that we need billions just to fix our national highways and this WaPo article gives some idea of the real cost:
Collapse Spotlights Weaknesses in U.S. Infrastructure
By Nick Miroff
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 3, 2007; Page A08
...experts and engineers said federal funds aren't enough to save the interstate system's half-century old bridges and 47,000 miles of highway from further decay, as a network designed to connect the nation teeters under a crush of commuter traffic.
According to a 2005 Highway Administration report, more than 75,000 of the nation's roughly 600,000 bridges -- 13.1 percent -- were rated "structurally deficient," meaning some components of the bridges' decks or support structures were rated poor or worse.
...the government will need to spend $188 billion in the next 20 years just to fix the nation's flawed bridges, according to a 2005 study by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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