09-07-2018, 10:41 AM
(09-04-2018, 10:07 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(08-27-2018, 05:05 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Maybe we will be in the Regeneracy once and for all when quality matters more than identity. We have plenty to solve, beginning with poverty. We have much obsolete infrastructure. If you want to speak of highways, then I can think of plenty of highway projects, including transforming one of the busiest rural expressways in America from two lanes in both directions to three, and replacing one of its cloverleaf interchanges (horrible accident waiting to happen when a truck jackknives going too fast for conditions, which can result from some fool cutting off an eighteen-wheeler). If I tell you what state and part of the state it is in I will give much away.
We are going to need more water and more energy. Solar power, anyone?
I can think of something far better than some wall resembling the Berlin Wall wall along our border: a freeway along US 83 which would connect a big chunk of America badly served by current highways. Rural freeways stimulate local development along them; urban expressways can wreck urban areas.
Well, you aren't going to solve poverty with more welfare programs and a more generous welfare system.
There will always be people in need due to their infirmity, mental or physical. The Hard Right seems to believe that if the economic elites can demand more and crack the proverbial whip harder, then every one will find a magically better world in which people bask in the glow of the ostentatious indulgence of those elites. Their ideal for Humanity is that people toil or die, as in a fascist labor camp.
God help you if you like that.
Big infrastructure projects create jobs for construction laborers.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.