News – 35W Bridge’s problems began in the 90’s

Looks as if Inspectors were raising concerns and questions about the bridge as early as 1996

The bridge has been under lots of scrutiny lately because many democratic politicians and liberal lefties are blaming the collapse on a weak funded infrastructure. They claim that the infrastructure has been underfunded because money is being “siphoned” in to the War in Iraq and, by transit of property, the Left claims that it’s in some indirect way “Bush’s Fault”.

Well, let see if that tune changes now that the complaints actually stem from the Clinton era. I, personally, don’t think anyone is to blame other than the core of engineers that are responsible for maintaining the structures in Minneapolis and the local city and state governments that are responsible for keeping the bridges and roads up to date.

There was even a recommendation back in 2000 that the bridge needed to be replaced.

State engineers recommended in 2000 that the Interstate 35W bridge that collapsed last week be replaced or redecked, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Wednesday.

Well then. We can all point fingers at each other and say everyone else is to blame, but we have to look at the facts. The state ignored the recommendations by the state engineers and now a major bridge-way is sitting at the bottom of the river and eight people are still missing. Perhaps we need to look back at what money that is set aside for maintaining roadways and bridges was actually being spent on in 1996.

The MSM will probably set this one out and then bury it under more political rhetoric and bush blaming. They’ve already begun blaming him for this one anyways, but at least CNN is somewhat trying to shut up all those Bush blaming liberals who think he is the cause of everyones problems.