http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170309-California-Drought-(and-Flood)-Update.pdf
Today, March 9, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2017 Infrastructure Report Card was posted on their website.
Like their 2013 report, which I referenced in my article on the Orovilled Dam disaster in last week’s report, this year’s report demonstrates not only that just to bring America’s infrastructure up to safety and functional levels will require $3.7 trillion now, but that the President’s proposed $1.0 trillion plan for infrastructure over 10 years does not even come close to what the nation desperately requires. Not only that, but, it is only by investing at least $1 trillion per year that millions of out of work, or miss-employed, Americans can be brought into the productive labor force. The misdirection, for example, of the debate about replacing Obamacare ignores the most fundamental problem with the disaster called health care: Poverty. As we shall see below, in the last section of this week’s report, it is poverty that has put one-third of California’s population on MediCal, costing the state and federal government tens of billions.
This week’s report includes the state of the now non-existent drought, as seen in the U.S. Drought Monitor, and the Reservoir Graph. Drought and flood remains the theme of these reports, but it is only by once again asserting the truth that mankind must never be contained by the whims of nature that an honest report on these phenomenon can be presented.
Our “Weather Report” this week marks the second week in a row that we report on a new record. Last week it was the 30 atmospheric rivers that has hit the state so far this winter. This week it is that, so far this year, the amount of precipitation falling on the state has erased a 122 year record.
Following a section on the losers (those still hanging on to environmentalism), the concluding section of the report has extended excerpts from several articles that demonstrate that the “California Dream” is now a nightmare.
To conclude this introduction, here is some of the introduction of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2017 Infrastructure Report Card, followed by a link to an article on China’s infrastructure plans for the next three years ($2.2 trillion planned investment in transport infrastructure alone), and a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers report on the Chinese economy.
China has issued a formal invitation to President Trump to participate in a Beijing conference on its New Silk Road policy to be held in mid-May. The President must attend this conference. And just in time, today, the LaRouche PAC released its new report, LaRouche’s Four Laws & America’s Future on the New Silk Road.
