Regarding the recent San Bruno pipeline explosion:
The U.S. is crisscrossed with more than 2.5 million miles of fuel pipelines, or enough to circle the earth about 100 times. U.S. regulators may now step up inspections and increase the industry’s maintenance costs.
Once upon a time one of our presidents created a jobs program that put three million unemployed people to work building our national parks system. Perhaps we could now have a jobs program to train and employ inspectors for all the stuff we built that isn’t getting inspected or being well maintained (which no doubt includes all those parks). And then maybe a jobs program to repair and refurbish? Our roads and bridges could sure use it. Of course, it would get mighty close to looking like a government takeover of private business in the case of inspecting pipelines, and where or where would we get the money? War is expensive. Rebuilding countries we’ve bombed to shreds is, too.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
P.S. And if we had a job corps to employ all those people, where would we get our "volunteer" army? It works better for the politicians as well to have an underclass that one party can (insincerely) promise to give welfare benefits to get votes, and the other party can blame for all our social and economic woes to get votes.
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