Lefties who want to bring back New Deal-esque projects - you realize the regulatory morass will not allow it?

[curadhan74]

The Hoover Dam, Golden Gate Bridge or any other New Deal project could not be built today.

Unions would demand blanket representation without elections -- and every imaginable compensation for such hazardous duty. Workers would apply for stress-related disability benefits given the dizzying heights and the dank subterranean mining. Environmental and a myriad other governmental regulators and inspectors would outnumber project engineers.

A great example of the regulatory rat maze the Left has created - The Empire State Building took two years to complete. Just look at the sorry World Trade Center.

[troyes]

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara, within two years there'd be a shortage of sand.

[therron57]

Seeing "lefties" as your introduction was telling of the ignorant nonsense to come. You're too busy thinking along party and ideological lines to consider the situation objectively. Workers who operate in high-stress high-risk careers will likely have high average medical costs depending on the seriousness of the accident. They need adequate compensation to cover it.

Also, the WTC will be higher than the Empire State and also, being that the ES was built in 1932, I doubt the facilities and wiring were as complicated. You're juxtaposing 1930s and 2012 technology.

Please, sir, get a brain and use it.

[lalla3]

While you are free to imagine whatever you want, the facts are quite different. The Big Dig in Massachusetts has been finished.

One of the most liberal states. The project is complete.

Your fantasy is not reality. But then most right-wing fantasies are not reality, either.

[emilek17]

Right, so you think we should build another Hoover Dam with no regulation and no government oversight?

No wonder conservatives are anti-education!

[colten]

(1)
What leaves an impression about your post is that you think that you are
smart when in fact you are simply mislead and full of yourself. Time for
a lesson young man.

(2)
So you don’t like regulators.
I guess you prefer that workers would die in major construction projects
like they did in Hoover Dam rather than to have safety regulations which
have reduced deaths to almost zero.

But then you are a really smart guy; you know better.

(3)
Workers who do dangerous or exhausting jobs should be highly
compensated – what is the argument against it?

The “stress-related disability benefits” is a load of nonsense dreamt up in
your mind. You don’t get disability due to working at heights when it is
your profession to work at heights.

But you are a smart guy; you know better.

(4)
Yeah, let’s not care about the environmental fall-out of irresponsible work
practices. I suppose that you would like the American workplace to end
up like India or the Phillipinies that have practically no enforced workplace
regulations and those countries are sh|tholes to live in. Nobody is looking
for a summer home in India buddy.

Yeah you don’t have to respect the value of regulation – just let it all go to
hell. You’re a smart guy; you know better.