So does Miami, LA, Chicago, etc. What's your point? The state is responsible for their infrastructure.
Yes, you are actually proving my point. Thanks!
The state is
partially responsible for its infrastructure -- and states
do pay most of the costs. However, we also have a national interest in the infrastructure of large cities.
In addition, some projects are just too big, and too important, and cross too many states, to pin it all on the states. E.g. New York and New Jersey combined cannot afford to build a new train tunnel underneath the Hudson River, yet the economy of the entire US depends on building a new tunnel.
So what I was saying was it is idiotic to pull this out of the air just to rag on Trump.
...except it isn't.
1) The US needs serious infrastructure improvements. Trump is President. He may not be on the hook to fix the NYC subway, but NYC infrastructure is
definitely part of his responsibility.
2) Trump
explicitly and repeatedly said he wanted to build up US infrastructure. He made this his issue.
3) His inability to get anywhere on this is indicative of his general ineptitude and disengagement from the job.
You got a problem with NYC stuff, tell it to the Dems who run it.
1) They're aware of it. They're working on it. Cuomo, for example, appointed Lhota (a very effective MTA chief) to run it again.
2) News flash! Chris Christie is the governor of NJ, and he royally ****ed up. He canceled the ARC Tunnel, basically just so he could convince Republicans that he wasn't a big spender. The end result was that the project was delayed by years, which in turn vastly increased its cost.
By the way, I know NYC well. I used Montana tongue in cheek...sorry you didn't get it. Lots of cities and towns have problems, you can't honestly expect Trump to comment on every single one.
Oh, really? So Trump was out of line, when he commented on Chicago's homicide rate? When he personally intervened to browbeat Carrier into keeping jobs in the US?
NYC is not just another city. It's one of the largest and most important cities in the US. And Trump should certainly be working on an infrastructure effort that helps not just NYC, but those small towns as well.