I'm going with Occam's Razor on this. Biden offered to pay because he places no value on the money itself. He doesn't care that the gov't is broke and doesn't have the money. He's also completely ignoring the fact that the shipping company is legally liable for the damages and their insurance is going to pay. Ultimately the bridge itself is owned and operated by the state of Maryland, not by the federal gov't. To the extent the feds are involved at all, it'll likely be the Army Corps of Engineers helping clear the wreckage, dredge the channel, and ensure it is passable by the super-sized container ships that need to use that harbor before work begins on a new bridge.
But, it's election season. We have a crisis, and our impotent puppet resident needs to try and look like he's in control and he's going to get things done. So, they put him in front of a camera without a suit jacket, with his sleeves rolled up so it looks like he's working, and let him run his mouth and make promises he'll never actually have to keep.
This has nothing to do with Obama taking bribes from one of likely dozens of sources to buy him off.
the shipping company is legally liable for the damages and their insurance is going to pay.
And how long will.this take. There's nothing that prevents you from building the bridge back quickly AND going after the shipper and their insurance company.
Perhaps the bridge and the port are key pieces of infrastructure and there's an economic cost to not rebuilding.
I guess I don’t understand. Almost everybody here wants the gov’t to not start rebuilding the bridge until insurance pays for it? It would be years and years and the full amount for it likely will never come. People aren’t using a lot of logic on this one and it’s so strange.
I'm going with Occam's Razor on this. Biden offered to pay because he places no value on the money itself. He doesn't care that the gov't is broke and doesn't have the money. He's also completely ignoring the fact that the shipping company is legally liable for the damages and their insurance is going to pay. Ultimately the bridge itself is owned and operated by the state of Maryland, not by the federal gov't. To the extent the feds are involved at all, it'll likely be the Army Corps of Engineers helping clear the wreckage, dredge the channel, and ensure it is passable by the super-sized container ships that need to use that harbor before work begins on a new bridge.
But, it's election season. We have a crisis, and our impotent puppet resident needs to try and look like he's in control and he's going to get things done. So, they put him in front of a camera without a suit jacket, with his sleeves rolled up so it looks like he's working, and let him run his mouth and make promises he'll never actually have to keep.
This has nothing to do with Obama taking bribes from one of likely dozens of sources to buy him off.
I'm going to Occam's Razor your Occam's Razor.
And how long will.this take. There's nothing that prevents you from building the bridge back quickly AND going after the shipper and their insurance company.
Perhaps the bridge and the port are key pieces of infrastructure and there's an economic cost to not rebuilding.
I guess I don’t understand. Almost everybody here wants the gov’t to not start rebuilding the bridge until insurance pays for it? It would be years and years and the full amount for it likely will never come. People aren’t using a lot of logic on this one and it’s so strange.