The Bridge (money has nothing to do with it)

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If you intend to read this discussion, I expect you to READ it. I am sure anyone who hasn't been in a cave the past week has seen the bridge that collapsed in Minnesota. If you have just watched the news just one time in this week period, you have probably heard some dunderheads saying that we need more money to rebuild our nations bridges, roads, etc. I am here to inform the masses that the lack of money has absolutely nothing to do with the bridge falling. My fellow Americans do you realize that out of hard earned money (excluding you all that don't get out of bed) that the federal government collects $3 Trillion dollars a year. The federal government profits more off of every gallon of gas than Exxon Mobile (13.8 to 8 cents a gallon). Then if you added up all the state and local taxes on gas, car registration, and car licensing fees, we could repair every single bridge in America. It is not a lack of money that our government face, it is actually 2 things: a lack of spending control, and workers. We spend way too much money on things that don't deserve to be spent on. Less than 1/6th of the federal government budget is spent on national defense, i.e the Iraq war. There is still 5/6th of that $3 trillion dollars left for everything else. For us to be able to repair every single bridge as some are suggesting, we wouldn't just have to keep all the illegals in our country but we would have to ask for more. We must have common sense in these difficult times.