BDS: Minnesota bridge collapse version

(from the Patriot Post US)

“The total outlay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, so far, over $600 billion. Think for a minute about what we could do with that money here at home, not only to improve our own infrastructure, but for other domestic needs that go wanting. Here’s the question: In light of the Minnesota bridge collapse, how could the U.S. better spend the $2 billion a week that we’re pouring into Iraq here at home?”

—CNN’s Jack Cafferty

"The bridges of every county: How the endless war and endless spending crippled our ability to repair or just check our infrastructure.”

—MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann

“Is it time we raise the federal gas tax to start fixing up our nation’s bridges and roads?...In Minnesota, Governor Pawlenty, who vetoed an increase in his state gas tax, said now he may consider one. Is this Republican dogma against taxes now precluding the ability of you and your party to come up with the revenues that the country needs to fix its bridges?”

—Columnist David Yepsen to debating GOP presidential candidates

“Funding the nation’s infrastructure is all a matter of priorities... Congress and the White House have traditionally had trouble making the tough decision to collect and spend more tax dollars on infrastructure.”

—CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson

“As time goes on, the [infrastructure] problem gets worse. And we’re coming up against it at the time when we’re spending, what, $4,000 a minute on the Iraq war.”

—Margaret Carlson

UPDATE:

Mark Tapscott asks the right question:

How many bridges would $5 million worth of earmarks buy?