We are. By refusing to properly maintain, inspect and regulate our infrastructure we ignore the almost certain catastrophes that will, of necessity, ensue. We have thousands of nuclear weapons, toxic chemical dumps, radioactive waste storage facilities, complex pipelines and refineries, offshore oil rigs and many other potentially dangerous facilities that require constant maintenance and highly trained and motivated experts to keep them running safely. And we do little about ensuring their utility and safety.
We have a problem today in that we don’t have enough inspectors and regulators to engage in the work of assessing the safety and security of ports, bridges, pipelines, power plants and railways. We will have a problem tomorrow because our financial, educational and institutional infrastructures suck. And yet we continue to cut budgets for maintaining, inspecting and regulating our infrastructures that keep this country working.
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