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dlk

(11,438 posts)
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 12:54 PM Jan 2018

Yesterday's Nuclear Missile False Alarm Shows Our Crumbling Infrastructure Has Reached Critical Mass

In yesterday's national security debacle, tens of thousands of Hawaiian residents were needlessly terrified of nuclear annihilation while POTUS golfed. (Is he any different than Nero fiddling while Rome burned?) Our decaying, crumbling infrastructure is in desperate need of updating and upgrading. Our livelihoods and national security depend on it. Yet, our politicians focus on tax cuts for the richest Americans and corporations, who don't need them. Will Americans wake up before it's too late?

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Yesterday's Nuclear Missile False Alarm Shows Our Crumbling Infrastructure Has Reached Critical Mass (Original Post) dlk Jan 2018 OP
All the more reason why it will be very easy for the KGB to hack the system and Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #1
Where Greed is God moondust Jan 2018 #2
How does someone pushing the wrong button tie in to infrastructure? EX500rider Jan 2018 #3
Wasn't it human error? WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2018 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. All the more reason why it will be very easy for the KGB to hack the system and
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 12:57 PM
Jan 2018

make several false alarms causing us to panic over and over, trample each other etc

moondust

(19,917 posts)
2. Where Greed is God
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 01:18 PM
Jan 2018

tax cuts for those who need them the least among us come first and foremost. Always. It's the Holy Word of Greed...I mean God.

The thousands of U.S. locales where lead poisoning is worse than in Flint

It may get worse before it gets better without competent leadership.

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