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because at the time very few people had the guts to?

• paulddraper 9y ago
  (1) I don't think it actually turned out great. (2) Even if it had, "it worked out" isn't a good justification for gambling with taxpayer money.
  • Godel_unicode 9y ago
    What result would have met your test for worked out? Gambling with taxpayers money is a pretty good description of the job of government (will this transportation system get used (consider Detroit's highway system)? Are we encouraging business the right way? Will this law reduce crime?)
    • paulddraper 9y ago
      Uncertainity about the usage of a hypothetical transportation system is qualitatively different than investing money to a company that has been mis-managed so badly it's going bankrupt.
  • nopzor 9y ago
    re: (1), so you think it didn't turn out a hell of a lot better than most imagined?