Just the beginning?

It's scary to think of how much of this country's infrastructure is old, dated, possibly dangerous and surely in need of repairs. We should spend less money trying to repair foreign countries and more repairing our own. (Which reminds me: in trying to get tech support on the phone yesterday, I was sent to India or somewhere and rarely could understand the "English" that was being spoken to me. So this is what we've come to, all to save a corporate buck. Very sad. R.I.P.)

clipped from news.yahoo.com Minn. bridge problems uncovered in 1990 By SHARON COHEN and BRIAN BAKST, Associated Press Writers MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota officials were warned as early as 1990 that the bridge that plummeted into the Mississippi River was "structurally deficient," yet they relied on a strategy of patchwork fixes and stepped-up inspections. "We thought we had done all we could," state bridge engineer Dan Dorgan told reporters not far from the mangled remains of the span. "Obviously something went terribly wrong."