Our Nation's Crumbling Infrastructure: What We Need To Do!
By Stan Tuttu.
  It is time for us to examine the needs for our country as the millennium sets in. We’ve seen wonderful advances in computer technology, space exploration, cell phones and high definition TV, but the decrepit state of our nation’s infrastructure is a ticking bomb that is threatening our national well being and is something we can ignore no longer.
  Our Nation’s water-supply networks, transportation system, electric-nuclear power networks and the like have been getting by and serving us well for years, but it isn’t easy to look at these days. If our country is to continue being the leader of the free world, we must return our nation to a newer, decretive and eye catching state of elegance;
We must have it Wall-Papered by experts.

  I would suggest “Decorators Best,” which features the best decorating fabrics and wallpapers at discount prices.
Behold these exsquisit examples I have prepared:

  Of course my expert opinion won’t be agreed with by everyone, but we must agree on designs soon, before our despicable infrastructure reaches a point of no return.
Let’s look again at the San Francisco Bay Bridge, truly a wonder of human ingenuity. It was opened in 1936, Its construction required 50 million man-hours, one million cubic yards of concrete, 71,000 miles of cable, 200,000 tons of steel and lastly over 3.2 million gallons of paint. Each year the structure is subject to hundreds of millions of cars passing over it’s expanse, along with pollution in the air, making it’s once pristine face dirty and flaking, leaving it a decrepit monolith of trailer trash despair.
  Take our interstate highway system. Beginning with the signing of the Interstate Highway Act in the 1950s, the DOT intended the roads to be regarded and resurfaced every 12 years. So guess what? While traffic, vehicle weight and accidents increase each year; maintenance schedules have been reduced because of waning budgets. So now we face a loss of 9 to 11 percent of structural strength along with 7 percent of surface to auto erosion each year! The yellow passing zones are peeling and the safety lines are crumbling. What happened to the safe and clean not to mention visually crisp roads our engineers once envisioned?
Neglect!
  People hardly take notice anymore when they turn the news on to hear once more of our railroads, damns, bridges, roads, factories, etc, collapsing and exploding around us. We must put an end to this now, WALLPAPER!
   Lets return our nation to the grandeur of the past when things were new and fresh!
You may be one of the party poopers that claim we can’t afford the cost of materials and wages for skilled décor specialists to get the job done, or that we don’t have enough wallpaper.. but I tell you,
WE CAN’T AFFORD NOT TO AFFORD WHAT WE CAN’T AFFORD!

The time to invest is NOW!
  The time is now to invest in Waverly, Ralph Lauren, Clarence House or any of the other fine manufacturers of Wallpapers we have in this country. Our infrastructure doesn’t have to be doomed; we have the ability to re beautify it for many generations to come.. our children and our children’s children are depending on us!
  Despite the ravages of time, we will do what we can to insure that we at least LOOK like the greatest nation on earth. We are capable.. We are – FABULOUS AMERICANS.
   Story by Jim Bellmore