Riffing on the "We are 99%" phenomenon, I started a photo tumblr to document the nation's crumbling infrastructure.
Ruins of Empire
Let's crowdsource the need to rebuild infrastructure, the suicidal Republican opposition, and the very real threat to human life if we ignore these needs.
Go photograph the crumbling Ruins of Empire in your community and upload the images to the tumblr blog. We are at an Ozymandias moment in our history.
My first submission is the decaying railroad trestle on San Antonio Terrace in Santa Barbara County.
Pacific Coast train trestle at San Antonio Creek, Santa Barbara County, Ca. The single track linking San Diego with Seattle. While inspecting the rust and corrosion, a passenger train passed overhead, showering me with a rain of rust and crumbled iron. It is only a matter of time before this trestle collapses in a horrific loss of life. Republicans have blocked rail passenger infrastructure spending. These greedy stupid pigs are responsible for the collapse of America’s infrastructure.
In very real and telling irony, this iron-age threat to human life is on Vandenberg Air Force Base, where the most modern and deadly weapons of mass destruction are tested with blind and willful ignorance of costs and budget.
Your documents of the decay and destruction created by years of mis-investment in our nation may serve some real purpose if they serve to document the liability of corporations and the state to public dangers. A single accident prevented or a single tragedy litigated may serve to restore a sense of moral hazard to the ethically challenged plutocrats.