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More than 40 huge sinkholes open
up all over Pennsylvania’s
capital, but the city is too
broke to fix them
Daily Mail [UK], by Damian Ghigliotty
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 2/2/2013 9:39:09 AM
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| Officials in Pennsylvania’s state capital are dealing with an abysmal issue they can’t afford to fix: 41 massive sinkholes throughout the city as wide as 50 feet and as deep as a typical grave. The mix of loose sandy soil and century-old leaking water pipes under Harrisburg´s streets have made the area susceptible to such holes, city officials say. But the city is too broke to replace many of the aging pipes and repave its roads as it deals with ongoing budget woes and the looming threat of bankruptcy, according to media reports. The first of the recent sinkholes
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1, 2/2/2013 9:55:26 AM (No. 9154009)
Another city run into the ground by libtards.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 2/2/2013 10:05:25 AM (No. 9154036)
Another Democrat city that cannot provide even the most basic government services - such as maintaining a road.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 2/2/2013 10:37:03 AM (No. 9154119)
Cloward-Piven-Alynski all emphasized the ´need´ to over-burden the capacity of the government to meet the ever expanding demands of the electorate and in so doing collapse the existing system and replace it with an entirely state owned and run system.
Radical chic though it may be.
Hip and fun and edgy too.
It still leaves you with an ash heap that the hippie children don´t know how to fix.
But it sure was fun burning it down.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jerseyden, 2/2/2013 10:40:15 AM (No. 9154132)
Didn´t Penn elect a republican this time around. Watch the MSM blame it on his administration.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
right-turn, 2/2/2013 10:54:59 AM (No. 9154180)
Free advice from me. Take all those sitting on their butts and collecting other people´s tax money and give them a job. Either work for the money or get nothing. The city will provide the shovels.
Anyone disagree??
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DARling, 2/2/2013 11:04:56 AM (No. 9154206)
It is a city´s job to keep the road fixed. It is not the job of the city to feed, clothe and house welfare recipients. When these liberal pest holes figure out the function of government, then they will suddenly find they have the money to fix the holes in the road.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 2/2/2013 11:16:35 AM (No. 9154236)
I read this and think how hilarious it is that Governor Perry is making news for trying to figure out how to return tax dollars to Texans. I think Perry was very shrewd to publicize this in the way he did... its a serious poke in the eye of all the blue states.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
miceal, 2/2/2013 11:37:45 AM (No. 9154277)
Maybe "they" could do like that "star registry place" and set up a company so people could have a sink hole named after them?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 2/2/2013 11:52:56 AM (No. 9154303)
On closer inspection, it was found that those are not sink holes, only footprints left by Gov. Christi when he visited the state. He was attempting to help his pal, M. T. Suit, in making some shovel ready jobs.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mitzi, 2/2/2013 12:08:52 PM (No. 9154342)
Sinkholes or portals to the underworld?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
GKC fan, 2/2/2013 12:39:47 PM (No. 9154418)
Most importantly... are the city pension plans generous enough?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
gator, 2/2/2013 12:45:20 PM (No. 9154430)
Could not care less if the entire city sinks.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
snakeoil, 2/2/2013 1:35:42 PM (No. 9154526)
Heck I have to deal with potholes. What the problem lefties?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
NYbob, 2/2/2013 3:46:22 PM (No. 9154704)
I´m surprised all the fracking money being generated in PA isn´t fixing this.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 2/2/2013 5:40:59 PM (No. 9154819)
Just when it seemed Pennsylvania couldn´t sink any lower....
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Coy860, 2/2/2013 5:54:05 PM (No. 9154835)
There was technology in the 1990s to send small cameras down water pipes, find the leaks, then insert a "sleeve" inside the pipe that leaked, solving the problem.
Lots cheaper than repaving streets.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/3/2013 6:04:19 AM (No. 9155313)
It´s a libtard city. All it has to do is raise taxes some more, drive people out, raise taxes even more, drive even more people out, etc. Libtards always repeat the same scenario.
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