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We are talking about America. We decided everybody should get electricity and they got it with rural electrification. Should everyone lose the right to have el
by rnk 4y ago
We are talking about America. We decided everybody should get electricity and they got it with rural electrification. Should everyone lose the right to have
electricity connections because you think it's too hard? Somehow other countries can do this with the US can't? We could decide just like we did for electricity that everyone should have 100 meg internet to their house.
- notafraudster 4y agoUnfortunately there seems to be a bipartisan political consensus against the most profitable and useful elements of the New Deal (WPA, TVA, REA, CWA) which would be almost mandatory to go whole hog on this kind of infrastructure proposal, and as we've learned over the last 40 years public-private partnerships are thin gruel as a replacement.
- thfuran 4y agoThe US seems to have totally lost the ability to produce infrastructure at sane cost, which may be contributing to the decreased support for infrastructure projects.