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# Santa Monica It’s the infrastructure
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-its-the-infrastructure-editor/
- Published: 2007-08-06T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:31:42.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Bruce Joffe Piedmont, CA*

Oh, this President and his Republican backers! They spent hundreds of billion (with a "b") dollars destroying the infrastructure in Iraq, and it's our bridges falling down because money wasn't spent to maintain our infrastructure. Now we hear them complain that a few million dollars to provide medical insurance for our poor children is "too expensive" ( “Price of socialized medicine is too high,” July 31). This Republican administration. Sheesh!

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 6, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/080607.pdf?ref=smdp.com)