Disastrous Water Infrastructure In America

[tubetib]

"Gallon"? No surprise the nation is behind if it still use this stupid unit system.

[Vendetta042]

I know how to pay for it, just print more money...

[jb0433628]

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[jb0433628]

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[jb0433628]

The implosion of the US is part of the NWO plan. Just add some fluoride in the water to zombify any opposition...

[genungapearl]

This is depressing in ways I can't even describe. On the up side, I love Ana's serious face--"It's white birch Cenk".

[xXxXInspireMeXxXx]

fuck this shit, I'm going to Australia!! Nobody's mad at Australia, Nobody, wants to kill Australians, all the lucky bastards down there are just chillin' while everyone else is having a shit fit. Best part: no need to learn a new language! :D

[PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD]

Can't wait for Republicans to continue live in denial about how important it is for the rich to continue to hold on to every penny.

[MrSpemat]

gotta keep 'em fluoridated!!!

[CannibalNecroPorn]

Cenk & Ana, can you expose the crime that the republicans commited with the assistance of the UN by adding sodium flouride to the publics drinking water for their purpose of "population control." Nonwealthy residential water and nonwealthy nurseries are being fortified with flouride to poison us and our newborn children under the international law set forth by "Agenda 21." The economical elite are killing us off.

[mochaguy22]

How did you country become so effed up??

[EmmittBrownBTTF1]

Here's how to sell this "Eat shit, a trillion flies can't be wrong" ;)

[AbonZel3]

No, you don't understand, the rich need those tax cuts so they can, out of their infinite mercy, create jobs to fix the infrastructure.

[interstate317]

tax cuts for the rich were 700 billion over the last 10 years, right? That is like 5% of our current deficit. Besides, why does the national government need to fix this? Why can't states or even local counties fix their pipes.

[Obviouslyced]

alright now. rich people owning the country, rich people controlling the country, manipulating the masses, getting richer, more powerful ladida, but this cant possibly be in their interest, can it? O_O i feel irrationally thunderstruck.

[Houshalter]

@Obviouslyced conspiracy theory much?

[Domzdream]

Africa is welcoming you with open arms, America. Come and join the thrid world graciously.

[Idontreallycare80]

I am never drinking water from the tap again.

[wetdream09]

In 100 years America will be no more.

[OTs03AS]

Ron Paul wouldnt touch this issue because in his mind the free market will solve itself out somehow! Clean water will probably invest in a chain of small businesses that will pay it to come out of your taps maybe

[GermansMustDie]

@OTs03AS

you have to pay for the water that comes out of your tap one way or another

[OTs03AS]

@GermansMustDie

Taxing the rich would be the best way

[GermansMustDie]

@OTs03AS

the Rich provide jobs.

this seems to be the Socialist agenda in general.

to tax the rich so the rich provide less jobs

just to help the poor who don't provide jobs.

the rich push society forward

why do we want to burden those who push society forward?

while rewarding those who fail?

[OTs03AS]

@GermansMustDie

Rich provide jobs only for yacht makers

[GermansMustDie]

@OTs03AS

Yeah I forgot

it must be Homeless people who build up businesses & give people jobs

[OTs03AS]

@GermansMustDie

Its the rich man's need for more money that gives people jobs, cut his taxes and you're cutting his employees

[GermansMustDie]

@OTs03AS

So if you cut the taxes of the rich man you cut his employees?

really?

well, if you raise the taxes of the rich too much then the rich have to lay off employees & will have less money to expand

thus less room for his to hire employees.

[OTs03AS]

@GermansMustDie

You really think they cant afford to pay a little extra in their taxes? Do you know how much money the piss away compared to the other classes? I guess rich people really need their Gulfstream IV private jet, Gulfstream III doesn't even have a remote control for its surround-sound DVD system :'(

Also once they make enough money to expand overseas, they do and create many jobs there, at the cost of laying off employees in their own continents

[GermansMustDie]

@OTs03AS

so, if you lower the taxes of homeless people?

it will cause homeless people to expand their busineses & give us more jobs?

Rich people buying expensive products from tax cuts stimulates the economy

Rich people expanding their businesses & hiring more people from tax cuts stimulates the economy

Poor people spending money they have from tax cuts stimulates the economy

I am for tax cuts for all

abolishing corporate taxes

[OTs03AS]

@GermansMustDie

I am for the rich paying their fair share in taxes that pay for healthcare and education for all

[GermansMustDie]

@OTs03AS

private healthcare & private school are better.

why not eliminate income tax theft & property tax serfdom?

what better to help out poor people than eliminting property tax?

which means poor people can afford to buy homes cheaply & not have to worry about tax & losing their homes

then rents will be signfiicantly cheaper

poor people don't have to worry about the feds stealing from their hard earned income b y theft

this is to benefit to everyone

[OTs03AS]

@GermansMustDie

Private healthcare mean only the rich receive decent health treatment, the rest who can't afford it die, quite literally. The same thing with education, look how expensive US uni fees are compared to places like Norway and it means potential Einsteins end up in low-paid jobs because they didnt have enough for a qualification. When those 2 things become businesses it always screws the average worker who is the more productive then most of the rich assholes.

[GermansMustDie]

@OTs03AS

Oh yeah

about 90 percent of the U.S.A has health insurance

but, that is only the rich?

my father is Middle class & get's his insurance paid for by his employer.

Einstein went to the Capitalist U.S.A because his Socialist Germany failed him.

[OTs03AS]

@GermansMustDie

Still public education has done a lot of good at providing low income families with an opportunity for education through out history

[GermansMustDie]

@OTs03AS

I live in the Surbia Metro area of New York

my school taxes are 2,700 a month

WTF?

I could probably go to the cheapest private school around for about that much a month

if we got rid of Public schools then Private schools would have to lower prices to compete for students

private schools would compete for the best money to get the most students

the public education system stagnates without competition & only relying on funding that often gets voted down

[OTs03AS]

@GermansMustDie

Think what you want Im not swayed

[interstate317]

@OTs03AS The free market is not going to fix broken government services. But, for the handfull of private toll roads, crumbling infrastructure is not an issue.

[ryderc69]

need alternative powered farming tackle water, clean energy, food and weather munipulation in one 2. non-social pro. network for public gov and business witch corperations take turning Green movement into another greedy oil market or something like that drive public opinion with lobbiests and teabeggers OPM- source of the convo in summer 08 3. Public options what right dubbed Obamacare- bundle deal like net phone cable but house power car and insurances 2./ they take the tax breaks ,give tolobi

[JagjeetMann]

socialism is the answer, true anarcho-socialism

[GermansMustDie]

@JagjeetMann

how do you create true anarcho socialism?

seemsyou can't have socialism withotu a government.

[JagjeetMann]

@GermansMustDie people already control themselves day to day, all it is is extending democracy to the workplaces instead of having unaccountable managers, studies have shown them to be more independent

[GermansMustDie]

@JagjeetMann

how do you plan on having democracy in the work place without a government to enforce it?

[JagjeetMann]

@GermansMustDie because power belongs to the people, thats why elites corporations are not democratic, they fear any reach of democracy, their goal is to create passive obedient consumers and the most effective way is through advertising, as corporations get power they influence goverment to get what they want, this is how its been throughout history, and thats why they hate movements like occupy wall street so they condem it through their mouthpieces-the media

[JagjeetMann]

@GermansMustDie also i appreciate your interest in the subject, i would recommend some people like noam chomsky to begin

[GermansMustDie]

@JagjeetMann

I know Noam Chomsky is for Libertarian Socialism.

but, Karl Marx's ideals were very similar.

Karl Marx was for a stateless & classless society

I don't believe a government can be both stateless & classless.

the only way to create a stateless & class society is within communes

'

but, there is still danger in this

Jim Jones took Marxism & encorporated relgiion in it

[KaliDemiDarkness]

I'm so glad I have a well.

[JEFF9K]

Your TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH at work. Thanks, Reaganomics!

[RequiemFear]

This is why I'm becoming an engineer...

[darkkitsune]

Bill the Cat for President.

[darkkitsune]

First World Problems...

[tdurran]

Trouble is those jobs wouldn't be American jobs. They'll be immigrant jobs. Working with a shovel? Americans?

[nsx1com]

Drink beer...

[johnnystorm28]

Meanwhile..............

NDAA 2012 gets signed

[The1stPoster]

man I could do with a glass right now.. brb

[squirrelywrath2]

Ya I would think that the stuff leaking OUT of the water is the least of their concerns

[NormacHC]

Americans need to go to Canada. We'll welcome you with open arms.

[jackthayer]

@NormacHC will u really? something tells me we would become the illegal immigrants of canada

[oexnorth]

@NormacHC

Just like your land in Canada, this land in the US is beautiful. Like many others, I do not wish to leave and would like to see this country flourish. It is just so demoralizing though when looking at our political and military structure. Every time I see a comment about how fucked the US is and how stupid its people are, it saddens me because I realize how true both of those statements are.

[EliteDoomer]

@oexnorth It is sad because the real problem is that so many have chosen to take the easy way out and have others think for them.

[TehHangover]

@NormacHC

No, because then Canada will turn into America.

[Stingerbillion]

@NormacHC I hear Canada is becoming America, so are European countries, so there is no where to hide. Soon those Canadians and Europeans will be as stupid as Americans. Why? Because people are stupid in voting for conservatives.

[MenwithHill]

@NormacHC "In this beginning of XXIII century, historian are still debating over what caused a 1200% increase of the Canadian population between 2020 and 2060. A general consensus attributes it to the criticaly ageing infrastructure of the country former known as "USA", but nobody believes a people would have been enough insanely stupid and careless to let it happen.

[Missteree87]

@NormacHC Save me my canuck friend! :(

[MPDKatina]

@NormacHC Oh sure, you're all welcome to live here. Just stay the HELL out of our politics o_0

[jotunobsidianeyes]

@NormacHC Too cold.

[alexbc7493]

@NormacHC when in doubt...

[reflexorz]

@NormacHC I'm comin...

[objectionablechione]

Well, I'm not surprised. Our infrastructure is falling apart as budgets are slashed.

[DaisyExodus]

I don't get why they don't spend a little money on this... Don't the rich drink water, or do they just drink money both figuratively and literally??

[PumaFau]

in Maryland we have a terrible water infrastructure

[Luker4877]

Its very expensive to fund the eugenics program. :(

[SirSinaFallah]

Water is the oil of the future.

[sfm073]

The whole idea that the government doesn't create jobs is the biggest scam since the dewey decimal system. Just fixing our water infrastructure around the country would create hundreds of thousands jobs, that doesn't include fixing our roads, bridges and buildings.

[CallMeMrNameless]

When I saw the video title, I thought "Yea, I know. And?"

...Then I realized it says "America" and not "Africa"...

[crackerkiller89]

@ConcealedTruism "Society advances and becomes more free, do you really think we would de-regulate the economy and let corporations take over the economy?"

It has already happened! Where were you during the Clinton administration? Where were you when the minimum wage when adjusting for inflation has dropped from $10.00 in the fifties to just $7.25 now?

[TheUSMetalhead]

The water infrastructure really isn't a national thing, it's regional. Most larger metro cities do have issues, and countless rural and small towns do, but each region is different. Where I am now in WI the city of almost 100k has very clean city water, where just an hour and half to the south in another good sized city their water rating is one of the lowest in the midwest. The future of clean water will be individual filter systems which will not be affordable to most.

[jallison79]

100 years of jobs sounds wonderful.

[bigcnile1]

oh ana i'll fix your leaky pipes



[GhostWithSkin]

Aerosmith - Eat The Rich

[Yamikaiba123]

Do you guys need us Canadians to march in and torch the White House again? Though we'll stop there; I mean, we can't do your revolution for you.

[putittogether]

And they built this infrastructure, with NO income taxes. And the tax was NOT introduced in mass until '20s.

[interstate317]

@putittogether not only that, but "they" is local cities and states, not the federal government.

[timoback3000]

Houston, we have a problem! What a fucking diaster

[davidfgranger]

Obama will end the Bush tax cuts if he's re-elected?

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice... You can't get fooled again.

[Cozybop]

Maybe the rich will fix them. Lol maybe not.

[buakawkaoklai]

DRINKING CHOCOLATE MILK SHAKE

[mard420]

if your rich...you filter your water at home...i wouldn't drink that shit out of the taps.

[hofifut]

I'm not in favour of personal tax cuts on the higher wage brackets, but Cenk always frames his arguments in a way that you can only choose one option over another, which is misleading. It's like saying to a judge you're not paying your $150 traffic ticket because that $150 was meant to pay your heating bill, without which you would freeze to death.

In this video above, you could raise other types of taxes, or you can cut other programs or services, depending on which level of gov't is paying

[slackologist]

this is the kind of project that could get america back on track. very sad it wont happen.

[amagilly]

This video would have been infinitely better if you had someone from the mises institute give an austrian perspective on this issue.

[BoyCotEbaynow]

this is being done on purpose so the water can be privatized. this is the kind of stuff that happend to usps

[resistnzisfutl]

As a civil engineer, it's spot on that our municipal water distribution infrastructure is in a bad situation. Unfortunately, for all these years, politicians and the public lacked the political will to do anything about it. It's in human nature often not to act on something until disaster strikes, no matter how many warnings are given by the scientific community. People don't want to change habits, nor do they want to spend money, if they think it's somehow not affecting them...

[ThaigerDon]

@resistnzisfutl i disagree. people know how to budget in a recession and take appropriate measures in a changing environment. unfortunately, our water distribution is managed by government bureaucrats. i would say it be wise to cut overseas spending and reallocate capital to repairing infrastructure, but that would be politically unfeasible.

[resistnzisfutl]

@ThaigerDon They've ignored the infrastructure long before this recession, and it's been a problem for a while. For instance, recently New York's primary water main failed and emergency procedures enacted to bring up a temporary water main. Such "bandaid" measures will eventually only compound the problem as these workarounds will impede more permanent measures.

The bureaucrats receive policy from lawmakers; it's the politicians and voters who make the policy.

Why politically unfeasable?

[ThaigerDon]

@resistnzisfutl because it's currently not the hot topic of government bureaucracy. they won't address issues like these unless there's pressure from the public to an extent that it can't be ignored by media.

[resistnzisfutl]

@ThaigerDon Well, that's true. Which takes me back to my original point, in that it won't be a hot topic until things start failing and bad things happen. It'll likely take public outcry before anyone does anything about it; if that weren't the case, we would have been on top of the infrastructure all along.

It's also what happens when our governing bodies are comprised of lawyers, political scientists, and businessmen. There are very few actual scientists and engineers in congress.

[ThaigerDon]

@resistnzisfutl agreed. but in the meantime, i'd prefer to cut back on the sewer water and just purify my own or buy it in a bottle.

[geebus80]

he could have redone that 4x over if you didnt bail out your corporate sector.... like a fascist / socialist nation would do.

[vastocean33]

please make this point 700,000 times.

[XequlixX]

yeah... we sure do have it ruff here in america...

[grogandroppa]

All empires rot from within

[IdidnotFartedIswear]

What about not buying some F-22 and F-35 and repair the damn water system before we die

[ytismylife]

I work as an engineer for the water/wastewater systems for a major Canadian city. This is absolutely appalling. The U.S. government obviously does not give a shit about it's people.

Providing clean water would create jobs, sustainability and a much healthier general population, drastically reducing strains on health care.

[shoobedoorocketship]

thanks to the conservative/corporatist/liber­tarian philosophy, the politicians are going to privatize the infrastructure so that on the wealthy/upper classes with have decent water an sewage. the rest of have degrading levels of water quality/sewage depending on the money you have.

[dimesach]

Your picturing our water infrastructure as one big system. And that is wrong. It is not all connected together, it is made up of thousands of individual systems, plants and companies. Not to mention a million miles of underground pipe. Hell you could take every penny the 1% has and still not perfect this countries water. Get real.

[shoobedoorocketship]

all of that money we spent on the wars and tax cuts for the wealthy in the trillions of dollars we should have spent it on the infrastructure.

[BigRickDouglas1]

Ana is particularly striking in this video :3

[varzonal]

That water that escapes the pipes though probably enters the Earth which helps against drought. Not like you can't just buy bottled water or some other drink if you were actually in mortal danger

[ytismylife]

@varzonal How does that help against drought? You clearly don't know much about water systems. It's called runoff.

[rajasmasala]

plus cheap civil engineering education, perhaps modular for easy adaptation to other engineering fields later on, plus adapter courses for regular engineers

[KETEv2]

And now i know why bottled water is so popular in America.

[raaaaaarr]

there isnt a single candidate...?? ron paul

[kanto2233]

@raaaaaarr uumm probably not. (by the way in all seriousness like your name)

[1123359]

We should all blame this on the government because they want to waste over 600 billion dollars on war but not to build America and help its services

[ThatBlackPanda]

Blaming shit on the government is getting old.

What Occupy Wall Street and TYT helped to reveal to the intellectual midgets is that the government is not not the source of the problems, the people who bought them is the problem.

[wistoncap]

Tax the rich? fuck that... time to drag them from their mansions and string them up.

[Northern5tar]

For Europeans or Asians visiting America is like going back in time. It's like you have stopped building somewhere in the eighties. All the infrastructure looks like it's forty years old and despite being patched up a bit, is starting to fall apart. Cracks and rust everywhere.

[AmzitheSoldier]

@Northern5tar What the hell are you talking about? In Asia only Japan and South Korea have widespread first world infrastructure. It also depends on the state. My state spends a lot on infrastructure. For example the Western European countries have 5-10 mb per second download speed, where I live in my rural town we get up to 100 mb. Europe is backwards....

[scottandrewhutchins]

"Let them drink sewer water!"--Sarah Palin

[brotmann86]

no surprise you can smell the chlor everywhere in u.s. bathrooms, and all of vegas

[Austin101123]

1:07 lol@Cenk's face when Ana interupts him.

[360army]

@Austin101123 good catch

[Kalas82]

@Austin101123

yea? and? interpreting much?

[nivashkumar3]

Ever visited India? Both of you. Other side is always green.

[scottandrewhutchins]

@nivashkumar3 That's where people clean themselves without toilet paper and scrub their shit down the sink.

[LetMeFlyinPeace]

i dont even drink tap water

[Snipe4261]

When was the last time we had a cholera outbreak in America? Its really not as bad as they make it sound here. Consider - is it just the clean water leaking out of the pipes or does that include contaminated water leaking in? They didn't' provide any information suggesting our water supply actually has sewage in it. It seems they just assumed that the water is contaminated based on what they knew about pipes losing water from leaks. Not great reporting.

[YiXiang101]

@Snipe4261 Eh, there's obvious bias in either direction. That's why you listen to both sides, including (although I loathe to say it) Fox. Hehe.

[EquinoxIV]

@Snipe4261 Every leak gives an opportunity for impurities to enter the system. Unfortunatelly, using chlorine in many cases is cheaper than fixing the leaks. That's when your tap water smells like a swimming pool.

[TheCreeperhunter]

Yuck!

[kramer911]

and there is a candidate that would actually care enough to fix stuff

and obviously its ron paul

[squreshi10]

@kramer911 He'd probably just privatize everything.

[kramer911]

haha

thats why ive been drinkin bottled

[painet1776]

You put government in charge, this is what happens. No real incentive to do their best. They get away with mediocrity and become stagnant by political feuds. 

[2011blueman]

@painet1776 - would you rather have corporations control our basic infrastructure? $25 per gallon of water? Every road being a toll road? Etc.

[shoobedoorocketship]

@painet1776 bullshit, its not holding people accountable thats the problem. privatizing rarely improves unless its a small, very rich community.

[manonthemount]

Today's elderly:

- Receive more in Social Security and Medicare they they paid in

- Enjoy pensions inflated by deficit-spending their grandchildren will finance

- Spent their lives using infrastructure their parents built without maintaining or developing it for future generations

The "greatest generation" is the biggest SCAM in history

[Balencian]

@manonthemount

Let's be honest, you think our grandparents do not have to deal with the mess their grandparents dealt with. Getting back at the bankers is one thing but I do not understand why you want to get back your grandparents over something they overlook.

[TheNavigateur]

Another thing: super-rich people speculate a lot of their money, which leads to even more economic instability. Until they ban price speculation, that's gonna continue.

[AmzitheSoldier]

@MuttonChopCartoons1 What planet are you from? "some estimates have placed fixing America's infrastructure at 63 trillion dollars" WTF? No it's been estimated to fix/upgrade ALL of America's infrastructure it would take $2.2 Trillion dollars.

You know what? If instead of giving money to the rich, if we had spent it on infrastructure it would ALREADY be fixed and upgraded. Better than Europe's or Japan's but no let's just keep giving Trillions to the rich. Dumb ass.

[MuttonChopCartoons1]

@AmzitheSoldier eight years, that's what kind of time people had to stop bush and his corporate friends from robbing America blind. But hey lets not federal and war crimes back then but instead now lets bitch about because its the IT thing. Don't give me that kind of crap, economist and other analyst's have been saying this kind of thing for thirty years!

[AmzitheSoldier]

@MuttonChopCartoons1 What the hell are you talking about? Did you even bother reading what I wrote? We should have NEVER stopped spending on infrastructure, and they've been noting it for 20-25 years not 30. I didn't even understand your second sentence. Try reading you dumb fuck because now you look like an idiot...

[MuttonChopCartoons1]

@AmzitheSoldier 5% percent of America's total GDP (600 billion) would be needed to repair this nations infrastructure. That's only 5%, a very conservative estimate, say it ends up being 20% or even 30% in reality. At just 5% your looking at 3 trillion in five years. Again an estimate yet with the US dollar falling, this could cause the money to become worth even less. Now say its 10% that's 6 trillion. US GDP in 2010 was 14.58 trillion. We'd be broke in no time.