Video: Infrastructure is no laughing matter
On his show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), the comedian cites the Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report in his roasting of America’s failure to maintain its “roads, bridges, dams… basically anything that can be destroyed in an action movie.”
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Image: Miniature cars move along the elevated freeway at Chris Burden’s large-scale kinetic sculpture, Metropolis II, during the media preview at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, California January 11, 2012. REUTERS/David McNew
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