More examples of your government on conservatism

This month:

"Record Rainfall Destroys Section of New York’s I-88" [1]

2005:

A section of ramp leading from I-787 into the state capital fell off its rocker Wednesday night. The adjacent span came frigheningly close to falling off the pier." [2]

Allow me to reprise two of the first paragraphs ever posted on this blog:

When Howard Dean ran for president, he said George Bush's federal tax cuts were a mirage—that every dollar states and municipalities could not get from the federal government for essential services they would have to raise on their own. They would actually turn out to be a tax hike—if, that is, states and municipalities were able to summon the political will to raise taxes at all. Some have had a hard time doing that.

And now the bill is coming due. The ground is opening up beneath our feet, swallowing people and machines.