From the news reports it appears that the major cause for the
delay in repairs of the San Francisco Bay Bridge is a lack of the
required steel. Is this what we have managed to accomplish with
the deindustrialization of the U.S. -- that we can no longer
repair a bridge? Where is the steel coming from -- India or
China?
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Crews trying to repair the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge ran into delays Friday as they
waited for new steel plates needed to strengthen the troubled
span before final tests could be run on the fix.
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Gunner: do you have any steel plate the state could use?
Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).