Set your DVR's fellas!    This is very interesting doc!!

 

 

Tuesday, June 23 01:00 AM

 

Sunday, June 28 05:00 PM

 

http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=452430

 

America's infrastructure is collapsing. Tens of thousands of bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. A third of the nation's highways are in poor or mediocre shape. Massively leaking water and sewage systems are creating health hazards and contaminating rivers and streams. Weakened and under-maintained levees and dams tower over communities and schools. And the power grid is increasingly maxed out, disrupting millions of lives and putting entire cities in the dark. The Crumbling of America explores these problems using expert interviews, on location shooting and computer generated animation to illustrate the kinds of infrastructure disasters that could be just around the bend.

 

I'd be interested in this if the History Channel hadn't burnt me out on the two dozen "omg the world is failing, 2012 what if we all just disappeared for no reason, ohh no asteroids, polar shifts, 2012, Nostradamus, blackholes, volcanoes, 2012, plague, etc etc 2012 etc." shows that they've done in the last couple years.

I can't make up my mind whether to just kill myself now, or wait until I hear the trumpet or see the first of the four horsemen. :|

 

Seriously, the country's infrastructure is a mess, and no one wants to pay to fix it. Why pay taxes to avert long-term consequences when we can have a lot more fun spending our money on petty self-indulgences, frivolous crap, and instant gratification?

^don't forget war.

 

He didn't. He said "petty self-indulgences, frivolous crap, and instant gratification." He covered it.

 

We Americans tend to be cheap, penny-pinching fools who want to live in the lap of luxury paid for by others, or by get-rich-quick schemes, or by some magical financial scheme that won't incur any pain.