Presidential election, 2016

[David Horn]

(12-30-2016, 08:00 AM)Odin Wrote:

(12-30-2016, 01:09 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: private sector's (Republican/Libertarian voters) and the public sectors (Democratic/Progressive voters).

This is complete nonsense.

Nonsense, certainly.  However, it is the public sector that has been systematically underfunded ever since Richard Nixon managed to win in '68.  It's been through periods of better and worse, but, frankly, we're so far outside the norm now that we're embarrassing ourselves.  We need a massive infrastructure program because we have allowed personal greed to underfund roads, bridges, electric grids, communications (fiber and 5G) and so much more.  We need more housing in cities, because the demand is pushing the price envelope right off the page.  We need expansive rail networks, including hi-speed, that will reduce the pressure to live in the city to work in the city. 

Most of all, we need a 21st century version of the rural electrification project to allow 21st century jobs to exist outside the dense urban areas.  Until 10Gbps internet connections are ubiquitous, there will be decline in the less populated areas.  Coal is dead and most extraction industries are declining.  The people in areas dependent on those industries can either flee or change careers.  This decline is due entirely to the world economy.  It has noting to do with the EPA or regulations, and the sooner the right comes to understand that, the sooner we move ahead.

We're never going back ... not ever.