Germans can be efficient when they need to. It's just governments generally aren't so efficient. But they still get shit done. I'd say it's actually much worse

Germans can be efficient when they need to. It's just governments generally aren't so efficient. But they still get shit done. I'd say it's actually much worse in the US in terms of the government's ability to get anything done related to infrastructure. Bad roads, rolling blackouts are a regular thing, etc. And of course there is the complete lack of any form of high speed rail connections anywhere in the US. Apparently it's impossible to get anything done on that front for decades now.