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So I was talking to my buddy and we were discussing how polarized EVERYTHING must be in todays environment thanks to the media and other forces. Then I realized, I wonder if things like Eisenhower's highway system or the Hoover dam would even pass today. It seems like the second something comes up the dem leaders huddle and the repub leaders huddle and each has to take a side and refuse to agree. Does ANYTHING even get done anymore for the betterment of the average American? Not even welfare or assistance programs, just infrastructure...It seems like the only thing that Congress CAN agree upon is war and corporation/bank bailouts...
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Absolutely no way would the highway system be built. There would have to be a 10 year study about it's impact. Then congressional hearings. Add in the EPA and OSHA. Next would be the inevitable holding on to the project so it's vote would coincide with the next Presidential Election. The President would use two different sides to the issue who both support his party to raise millions for his own political expenses. Next Greenpeace or The Sierra Club would file injunctions to stop construction. Individual homeowner's would form large law suits against anyone they could to stop it. Next... budget constraints, because don't forget the Interstate system is a federally funded project not private. So twenty-years down the road you might have a section built here or there, it's cost 5x's original estimates, and it's still not finished because the living habitat of a tree frog has once again shut the construction down for six months of its breeding time......
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