By John Gaudio,

Last Tuesday, March 16th, 2010, in just under five hours Keeley and Sons installed this thirty seven foot composite bridge over Little Canteen Creek in Fairview Heights IL.  The bridge was built in Denver, Colorado by Infrastructure Composites International, and trucked to Illinois late last year.  It consists of four sections, two of which include integrated guard rails.  See link below for more photos.

The bridge was built using Infrastructure Composites' proprietary large cell honeycomb technology, developed by John Kunz, one of the owners of Infrastructure Composites, and his father Ben Kunz.  This makes it possible to create bridges with remarkable strength at weights typically 75-85% less than traditional steel or concrete bridges, making the installation of a complete bridge much faster, easier, and less expensive, when compared to the installation of typical bridges.  Pre fabricated bridges like these have a projected lifetime of 50-75 years, and can be installed at the site in one day.  This avoids lengthy road shutdowns, traffic disruption, and the high costs associated with both.

This technology can also be used to put new decks on older bridges, making it possible to re-rate those older bridges for a much greater traffic load than that for which they were originally designed, and solving a common problem with bridges built decades ago for lower load ratings.  Why can these bridges be re-rated?  Because the existing structure now has to support only 15-25% of the static deck load for which it was originally designed, leaving a great deal more capacity for increased traffic loads, and eliminating the need for a new bridge. This makes for huge savings, not only in money, but in time, and labor as well, when compared with the cost of replacing existing bridges with conventional steel and concrete technologies.

Infrastructure Composites can be reached at 858-537-0715.
 
(Disclosure: I have known John Kunz for over 20 years, own a small amount of stock in Infrastructure Composites International, and provide photo, video, and Internet marketing services for the company.  Please contact me at 303-870-1044 if you need similar services.)

By John Gaudio,

I was pleasantly surprised to see Colorado Biz Magazine publish this excellent article by Diane Schwenke on government interference in business.  Colorado Biz Magazine lost considerable credibility in my eyes when it endorsed Barack Obama for president, along with his big government and anti business policies.

To see even this lone article making the point that big government is not a friend either of business or the people, is a refreshing and positive thing.  I hope it demonstrates a shift in the right direction at Colorado Biz Magazine, when it comes to issues of government interference both with business, and with the will of the people of Colorado.

Some of the "unforeseen" consequences, of this legislation were foreseen by many of us.  Please check out my January post on these new and unconstitutional taxes.

Dennis Prager puts it quite eloquently.  The larger the government, the smaller the citizen.

Precinct caucuses are this Tuesday.  Please take the time to get out and help choose great candidates so we will have good choices in November.  Then, let November be the month we tell our politicians, and some of our Supreme Court Justices, in no uncertain terms, that we, the people of Colorado, will not stand for this governmental abuse.

Also, if you're an entrepreneur interested in business, please check out EntConnect, a conference/retreat coming up later this month.

John Gaudio, john@gaudio.com  303-870-1044

By John Gaudio

Do we follow conservative principles and preserve the finest health care system in the world, or do we settle for socialized medicine by following Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid, as they attempt to replace our outstanding health care system with socialized medicine?  That is the debate we face, and face again, as the socialist leadership of the Democratic party tries to shove Obama Care down our throats.  We must tirelessly debate our liberal friends, neighbors, and politicians, pointing out the fatal flaws in their logic, and stopping Obama Care in its tracks.

Buy this 77 minute debate, and learn from the best, Hugh Hewitt, how to debate your liberal friends.  Hugh is a master at asking questions, then letting his liberal opponent make the conservative case for him.  Hugh debates in a pleasant and respectful manner, allowing a friendly exchange of ideas in which liberals can learn for themselves the flaws in Obama's plan.  Hugh takes the offensive without being offensive.  That makes him a powerful voice in this debate, but Hugh's voice alone is not enough.

Each of us must take the time and make the effort to speak out at every opportunity.  Learn from this video, and share what you've learned.  Play it for your church group, your Home Owner's Association, your Prager Fan Club, your family, and your friends.

Hugh lays out the case beautifully, and even liberal law professor, Paul Campos, makes it clear that he is not supporting President Obama's specific legislation, so much as the proposition that serious health care reform is needed.  Both men do a fine job educating and entertaining us, and now it's our turn to educate those around us.  Please listen to the opening statements at left, then order the video to learn more of what you can say to convince your friends, neighbors, and elected officials, that, as Hugh Hewitt says, "Obama Care is to Health Reform what Acorn is to Child Protective Services.   It does not work!"

We thought the battle was over when the people of Massachusetts elected Scott Brown 41 to fill "the people's seat" and cast the 41st vote required to stop Obama Care, but Obama, Pelosi, and Reid now threaten to use the nuclear option to oppose the will of the people.  Please contact your Senators and Representatives now.  Tell them that we do not want to be a socialist country, that we do not want socialized medicine, that we will strongly support the opponents of any elected official that tries to force this upon us, and that we, the people, will ultimately prevail.

According to Hugh Hewitt's article last Friday, this battle will be won or lost in The House.  Check out the list in Hugh's article to find contact information for your Congressman, and make the call to voice your opinion.

Then get this video at the Hugh Hewitt store, and learn the fine points, directly from Hugh Hewitt, of how to debate a liberal, and stop Obama Care in its tracks.