America's Bridges Are Falling Down?

How many times have you heard a story like this one: “America’s road to recovery may face a costly detour due to a fraying transportation network. One in nine of the country’s 607,380 bridges are structurally deficient …”  This is immediately followed by a call for higher taxes and more Government Spending (remember the Stimulus?). Just another case of those mean Republicans cutting spending at the expense of your safety. Except . . .  here's an inconvenient chart. 




Whatever those dastardly Republicans have been doing, it seems to be working. Or maybe the call for more government spending is like a broken record that just plays over and over and over.