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Always nice to see people that still believe in the government to act competently. I mean really, we can't even maintain the roads. There's no way we'll be able
by hanniabu 6y ago
Always nice to see people that still believe in the government to act competently. I mean really, we can't even maintain the roads. There's no way we'll be able to pull off some next level plan, let alone execute it in a reasonable timeframe. There's a fundamental breakdown that's happened somewhere in the past 50 years that's lead to the inability to properly manage the country's infrastructure and this doesn't just apply to roads. Is it a leadership issue? Self-serving corruption? I don't know, but what we have now is certainly broken.
- burlesona 6y agoNot in the last five years, but gradually over the last 40 or so. The reason is essentially that we’ve been building road networks that cost more to maintain than they generate in tax revenue, and thus our infrastructure balance sheet is running more and more negative. We’re very poor compared to the balance sheets governments in the US operated on as recently as the 1950s.
- hanniabu 6y ago> Not in the last five years, but gradually over the last 40 or so Thanks for pointing that out. I meant 50, just edited
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoThe folks at Strong Towns make this case pretty well.