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> It would also cost hundreds of billions of dollars and a decade to build. Doesn't do much for seeing Uncle John next Tuesday. You just described the building
by testing22321 6mo ago
> It would also cost hundreds of billions of dollars and a decade to build.
Doesn't do much for seeing Uncle John next Tuesday.
You just described the building of the interstate highway system, but I doubt there’s a person alive who would say it wasn’t worthwhile.
I fear Americans are simple to selfish to have any desire to do time consuming expensive things that will improve their country long term. They just want benefits for themselves , now.
- 999900000999 6mo agoI would like to fix our health care system first. Meanwhile, the government could announce a bailout of Spirit tonight. Wouldn't take nearly as much effort.
- testing22321 6mo ago> I would like to fix our health care system first Good ol Zoidberg once again says “why not both?” If you don’t fix anything else until healthcare is fixed, you’ll be fixing nothing until the end of time
- pm90 6mo agoI think Americans aren’t as selfish as most people believe; it’s just that they don’t know any better. Education and awareness is key to change that.
- bdangubic 6mo agoI don't think it is neither education nor awareness, our core problem and what is an eventual doom of this country lies in the fact that with the two political parties that we have and extremely non-functional government we are no longer capable of doing long-term things. whatever party X tries to do, they get a few years and then when party Y takes over their first order of business is to dismantle everything that party X did (tried to do) in the previous two years. while china can create "10-year plan" the america is no longer capable of creating any such thing and this is destroying the country, little by little...