To those people, and their loved ones involved in the recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis, my heart is with each and every single one of you. It's such a sickening misfortune this had to happen to you and your loved ones.
I am sure the onslaught of lawsuits will come forth shortly, and with good reason. There's no excuse for this. I find it interesting that the City of Minneapolis has the "cause of collapse" listed as "under investigation" via their web site. Yeah, "under investigation" my ass. It doesn't take a god damn investigation to figure out how the bridge collapsed. It's called "neglect."
Please, allow me:
neglect
–verb (used with object)
1. to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
2. to be remiss in the care or treatment of: to neglect one's family; to neglect one's appearance.
3. to omit, through indifference or carelessness: to neglect to reply to an invitation.
4. to fail to carry out or perform (orders, duties, etc.): to neglect the household chores.
5. to fail to take or use: to neglect no precaution.
–noun
6. an act or instance of neglecting; disregard; negligence: The neglect of the property was shameful.
7. the fact or state of being neglected: a beauty marred by neglect.
Or how about this:
willful neglect
noun
a tendency to be negligent and uncaring; "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities"
Get it? Good! Let's move on, shall we?
The integrity of the aforementioned bridge was supposed to be under the responsibility of the state of Minnesota, no? That being said, where have the tax dollars of Minnesota gone to? It is now more than obvious the tax dollars haven't been going into the proper maintenance of that bridge.
If the bridge was deemed unsafe, then why was traffic allowed to use it in the first place? I mean, WTF people?
Man, do I smell a big giant lawsuit. The Minnesota Department Of Transportation has a lot of splainin' to do; especially when it comes to splainin' where the tax dollars have gone to since they obviously didn't go toward the bridge (and don't give me this "they didn't get to it on time" crap, either).
And now, given this recent tragedy, we have state Governors ordering new bridge inspections. Yeah, okay. So, aren't bridge inspections occurring on a regular basis anyway? Why does it take a tragedy like what happened in Minneapolis to prompt new bridge inspections? Are not inspections regularly scheduled and more importantly, being performed? And where are the results of said inspections, if any? And if not, why haven't the inspections taken place? And don't give me the "lack of funding" excuse, either. Lack of funding my ass. If you greedy, corrupt sonzabitches in charge knew how to manage the money, none of this would of happened in the first place. What the hell is going on here? I smell the heavy stench of corruption everywhere here, folks.
Now, it seems the Brooklyn Bridge fails the most recent inspection. Okay, so why isn't it being maintained? Where are the inspections and the inspection results? And again, where are the tax dollars going? Once again, I smell the stench of corruption.
Today I read over 70,000 bridges are rated deficient. That's 70,000. Over Seventy-Fuckin'-Thousand! Why is this information now all of the sudden being released? And again, where are the tax dollars going? And yet again, where are the previous inspections and/or results? Where exists the responsibility of the State run governments in all of this? *sniff sniff* There's that stench of corruption again.
The bottom line is this: Where in the bloody fuckin' hell are all of the tax dollars going? No good, sonzabitchin' state government bureaucrat bastards.
This is all precisely why I hate having government in control of things.