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I'm constantly struck by how much we're willing to spend on military costs but not willing to shell out on infrastructure.
by foota 9y ago
I'm constantly struck by how much we're willing to spend on military costs but not willing to shell out on infrastructure.
- chii 9y agoIf only an Infrastructure Industrial Complex could be established...
- adventured 9y agoThere are small ones within each major state. They keep costs insanely high for basic maintenance and also keep repair times extremely slow, versus comparables in Europe or Japan. Just compare how well the roads crews do in California versus Germany, it's night and day. California roads are an embarrassment at 4x the cost of German roads.
- mschuster91 9y ago> Just compare how well the roads crews do in California versus Germany, it's night and day. Well as a German I can say that most road workplaces aren't even worked at during the day - you need to be lucky to see a worker there, and heaven forbid working on weekends or during night. In addition it's rare that politicians have the guts to say "okay we close $Autobahn totally for a year instead of having a 2-to-3 years halfway usable Autobahn", even though this mode of work is way more efficient. Something like the 48-hour sinkhole repair in Fukuoka/Japan or the Russians repaving a whole massive street in a single day (https://sploid.gizmodo.com/watch-a-huge-swarm-of-machines-pave-a-road-in-russia-1784417285 https://sploid.gizmodo.com/watch-a-huge-swarm-of-machines-pa...) would be unthinkable in Germany.
- ashayh 9y agoIndeed. I just remembered an example where the Army bought trucks for $50B and scrapped 2/3rds of them: http://csbaonline.org/print/1180 http://csbaonline.org/print/1180 This is peanuts.