Pedestrian Bridge Collapse, FIU, S Florida

[Speaker to Animals]

You know, these pedestrian bridges only exist in urban areas.

Do you think whites are oppressing poor urban minorities with sabotaged bridges??

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

A family owned and run private contracting company fucks up a bridge, and the response is to blame:

affirmative action
minorities in general.
the government

Regular brain-trust around here.

Share your vast experience with government contractors, then.

Will that somehow prove that the buck doesn't deserve to stop with the particular designers and builders of this bridge?

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Not assigning blame, just talking government contracting. Though obviously, the government contractors in this case did a substandard job.

Or is that also debatable to HM, Protector of All Things Government?

We should probably get the state out of the public works game in general, and let the market determine where we put our pedestrian toll-bridges of the future.

[MilSpecs]

When I maintained fighter jets and would have to order parts from a supplier, I skipped right the fuck over those affirmative action designations for the next on the list.

Says the musciad.

I'm sorry, princess. Was that one of your gibserations?

It roughly translates to "person who lacks a work ethic." In this context, it connotes irony. Example: "The musciad talks about people looking for work like he's got three jobs."

[Okeefenokee]

A family owned and run private contracting company fucks up a bridge, and the response is to blame:

affirmative action
minorities in general.
the government

Regular brain-trust around here.

Share your vast experience with government contractors, then.

Will that somehow prove that the buck doesn't deserve to stop with the particular designers and builders of this bridge?

The designers and builders of the bridge were government contractors. That's what I said. The group of us here have many years of direct experience between us working with government contractors.

There's a different standard when you're working for the government. It's a standard that would never fly for a private business.

Think about this, while that bridge was being built, city building inspectors were all over town hassling private builders over residential building codes.

[MilSpecs]

Share your vast experience with government contractors, then.

Will that somehow prove that the buck doesn't deserve to stop with the particular designers and builders of this bridge?

The designers and builders of the bridge were government contractors. That's what I said. The group of us here have many years of direct experience between us working with government contractors.

There's a different standard when you're working for the government. It's a standard that would never fly for a private business.

Think about this, while that bridge was being built, city building inspectors were all over town hassling private builders over residential building codes.

But it has little to do with affirmative action or minorities. The people who build infrastructure are often just connected. They're more about no-show jobs than outright incompetence.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Share your vast experience with government contractors, then.

Will that somehow prove that the buck doesn't deserve to stop with the particular designers and builders of this bridge?

The designers and builders of the bridge were government contractors. That's what I said. The group of us here have many years of direct experience between us working with government contractors.

There's a different standard when you're working for the government. It's a standard that would never fly for a private business.

Think about this, while that bridge was being built, city building inspectors were all over town hassling private builders over residential building codes.

They weren't working for the government, they were private business contracted by the government, and they fucked up the contract. Lockheed is a 'government contractor,' pretty sure it is still a private, for-profit company.

[Okeefenokee]

Will that somehow prove that the buck doesn't deserve to stop with the particular designers and builders of this bridge?

The designers and builders of the bridge were government contractors. That's what I said. The group of us here have many years of direct experience between us working with government contractors.

There's a different standard when you're working for the government. It's a standard that would never fly for a private business.

Think about this, while that bridge was being built, city building inspectors were all over town hassling private builders over residential building codes.

But it has little to do with affirmative action or minorities. The people who build infrastructure are often just connected. They're more about no-show jobs than outright incompetence.

You have no idea if it involved affirmative action hires or not.

Let me guess, you don't have any experience with it either?

The government contracted construction crew paving the walking path across UT right now, for the second time in less than a year, is lousy with affirmative action hired women standing around holding safety flags while the men haul load after load of bricks.

[Okeefenokee]

Will that somehow prove that the buck doesn't deserve to stop with the particular designers and builders of this bridge?

The designers and builders of the bridge were government contractors. That's what I said. The group of us here have many years of direct experience between us working with government contractors.

There's a different standard when you're working for the government. It's a standard that would never fly for a private business.

Think about this, while that bridge was being built, city building inspectors were all over town hassling private builders over residential building codes.

They weren't working for the government, they were private business contracted by the government, and they fucked up the contract. Lockheed is a 'government contractor,' pretty sure it is still a private, for-profit company.

Tell us what you know about it, personally, or shut the fuck up.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

The designers and builders of the bridge were government contractors. That's what I said. The group of us here have many years of direct experience between us working with government contractors.

There's a different standard when you're working for the government. It's a standard that would never fly for a private business.

Think about this, while that bridge was being built, city building inspectors were all over town hassling private builders over residential building codes.

They weren't working for the government, they were private business contracted by the government, and they fucked up the contract. Lockheed is a 'government contractor,' pretty sure it is still a private, for-profit company.

Tell us what you know about it, personally, or shut the fuck up.

I know, personally, what the words 'government contractor' mean, and clearly, you do not.