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It's in the national interest to have well maintained roads the military would be able to traverse. That's really why we have the interstate highway system in t
by fooey 10y ago
It's in the national interest to have well maintained roads the military would be able to traverse. That's really why we have the interstate highway system in the first place.
It's also in the national interest to have a well educated population with a generally common knowledge foundation. Education is a cultural and nationalistic cornerstone.
- caseysoftware 10y agoIf you use "in the national interest" as your threshold, you can apply it to almost anything: It's in the national interest to have a healthy population. For everyone to work out regularly. For everyone to read every day. For everyone to travel the world and learn about other cultures. For everyone to get a full night's sleep. That's why that is not the US standard. We explicitly have restraints and constraints on government. If you want to remove those restraints and constraints, that's fine. There's a process for that. But if you ignore the restraints and constraints instead, then government power is based on whims and preferences of whoever is in power. And we know how that works out.
- emodendroket 10y agoThe government takes steps to encourage many of the things you've listed.
- aggie 10y agoHighways are much less of a military necessity than when they were built. The nature of warfare is no longer based as much on troop movement.