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> What am I going to do, pick the next President based on their attitude about ship maintenance? I mean, you could. I stopped paying attention to politics wh

> What am I going to do, pick the next President based on their attitude about ship maintenance? I mean, you could. I stopped paying attention to politics when it became obvious that the two-party system is killing actual democracy. But... If a candidate said they were going to prioritize rebuilding our failing infrastructure, to include roads, bridges, power generation and transmission, communications, and defense assets, they would certainly have my attention.

hotpotamus 4y ago
> If a candidate said they were going to prioritize rebuilding our failing infrastructure, to include roads, bridges, power generation and transmission, communications, and defense assets If they didn't follow it up with, "and your share of the bill will be...", then I'd be pretty skeptical. Stuff costs money and you can't cut taxes and expect the government to perform all that it did before you cut them. Of course, I might be the only person in America to vote for a politician who would actually say that.