Why Can't America Fill a Pothole?

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🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Why can’t America build or repair infrastructure on a par with countries in Europe or Asia? Why are our bridges, roads, and airports not what they should be? Aren’t we the richest and most technologically savvy country in the world? Who or what is holding us back? Kyle Smith of National Review has the surprising (and frustrating) answer.

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0:00.0	From left-wing Democrat to right-wing Republican,
0:02.7	everyone loves infrastructure.
0:04.8	We all want safe bridges, smooth roads, and world-class airports.
0:08.7	So why can't we have them?
0:10.1	Why are America's bridges falling down
0:12.1	are roads riddled with potholes
0:13.8	in many of our major airports dilapidated?
0:16.3	Why can't the United States build or repair infrastructure
0:19.2	like European and Asian countries do?
0:21.2	The answer is not complex.
0:23.1	America doesn't have better infrastructure
0:24.8	because of two groups,
0:26.0	environmental activists and labor unions.
0:28.8	What has happened to the Keystone XL pipeline,
0:31.1	a project to bring oil from Canada
0:33.0	to refineries in the US,
0:34.6	is a typical example.
0:36.6	According to environmental groups,
0:38.0	this vital piece of infrastructure
0:39.5	is a guaranteed disaster.
0:41.7	Never mind that pipelines are,
0:43.0	by all measures, a much safer way
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