Everything's broken ...

What a lot of people don't get about their cars and their homes is that once they're built, they need periodic maintenance to keep them going. So do our bridges and roads:

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In December, a commission established by Congress in 2005 under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act—A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) provided the sobering statistics. The United States needs to spend $225 billion annually — more than twice what it does now — for the next 50 years. That’s more than $11 trillion worth of fix-ups on surface transportation systems alone.

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All for Iraq and Iraq for all.

Great thanks to SP for the link.