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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The primary issue is that American government, at all levels, is pathologically incapable of doing anything whose ROI interval is longer than about a year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Except interstates, then it's "what's an ROI?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Painfully true… after all, line must go up