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Infrastructure of all sorts seems to be crumbling.
While some businesses like Google (gigabit internet) are taking steps, infrastructure seems to be failing faster than we are spending on foreign things such as unnecessary wars.
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Infrastructure of all sorts seems to be crumbling.
While some businesses like Google (gigabit internet) are taking steps, infrastructure seems to be failing faster than we are spending on foreign things such as unnecessary wars.
When government gets off their back.
When Nationalism and is no longer a dirty word.
When Patriotism reverts back to its original meaning rather than the converted code - Proponent of Leftist Ideology
When we acknowledge that this country has a culture which immigrants need to meld into rather than we need to change our culture to accommodate every immigrant wave.
Seeing as how most infrastructure is public why would businesses rebuild it? In the case of power transmission lines, for example, it won't get upgraded until there can be a surety of return on investment. With electric rates controlled in many cases by state agencies which are loathe to increase rates, a wholesale upgrade of that type of infrastructure isn't in the cards near term, either. Unless, of course, you're willing to see your electric rates double or triple much like sewer rates are doing in parts of the country due to new requirements.
it seems to me that the government is the ones that are responsible for streets and bridges in this country, not private industry, unless of course you want toll roads and bridges across the nation.
Unlike the "beer-to-beer" crowd which is the cornerstone of the Democratic coalition, conservative entrepreneurs have long memories. Much of the heavy (and immovable) investment in things like industrial plant, railroads and city transit systems was de facto confiscated as the cities became further and further dominated by people who had no stake in the long-term.
So much of infrastructural investment has to be left up to the public sector, run by hacks and bozos who have no more concern for the long-term than their simplistic clientele. Beyond a certain age (and the average age in the nation continues to rise, moreso in the older urbanized state) we all run our personal lives short-term. Need I say more?
where did the money go that was collected from us and allocated for infrastructure?
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