Friday 10-02 America is Crumbling

This is a short intro to the two hour History Channel show which will air twice on Tuesday.

Tuesday, October 06 10:00 AM

Tuesday, October 06 04:00 PM

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.

Forty Six cents of every dollar the federal government spends is borrowed. We import almost 70% of our oil. If we balanced our trade by cutting oil consumption in half and rationed food so we could export more of it to people overseas with stronger currencies, we would still have to come up with a few trillion dollars to rebuild American infrastructure. And we would also have to educate American adults and their children. They know nothing and have few skills. It is past time to say No to Wall Street, the Federal Reserve and to war.


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US relinquishes control of the Internet


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