sci.research.careers

On Aug 4, 10:11 am, Straydog wrote:
>
> > Everything has been build in the
> > years when labor cost and materials were very cheap and nobody thought
> > about the cost of maintenance. Now all that (sometimes literally)
> > falls on the shoulders of the generation Y and all other who still
> > exist. The same story about New Orleans. People over there can not
> > play jazz by themselves. They need Army Corps of Engineers to maintain
> > dikes and levees. Who is gonna pay for all that?
>
> I don't know, but I'll offer up a candidate class: the rich. Soak the
> rich. Lets get Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to "give back" to the country
> that let them get rich of it (instead of all these projects that are
> failing). And, all those laid off programmers that were replaced by cheap
> Indians can get nice bridge jobs.
>

Temporary solution. The failing infrastructure drains Gates, Buffets
and many others and still be failing. At the end people just give up
and abandon it. I observe it here. A good example is a building of one
of the major insurance company right next to my neighborhood. It has
been build in the years when oil was cheaper than water. Now the
company is fighting with the state historic preservation authorities
to demolish it because it drains cash for heating in winter, cooling
in summer and maintenance. It tried to sell it but have not found even
japanese for that. It is considered a historic monument. Apparently
for the good reason. The country is staffed with such monuments. Most
of the big bridges are permanent enterprises. They start painting it
from the one end and by the time they reach the other it is time to
start all over. Job security, huh! But who pays? And for Iraq?