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CHamilton

CHamilton

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Past mega-projects eventually succeeded because enough leaders decided that they were important enough priorities that they found a way to pay for them, committing the necessary resources to them each year for as long as it took. The same could be said about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Like it or not, two successive presidents and majorities in Congress have decided that these war efforts were important enough to spend trillions of dollars, much of it borrowed money, for which nearly everyone could think of other (perhaps better) uses.

For conversations to end with “we don’t have the money” represents defeatist thinking. Instead, we should all be making the case that achieving the improved mobility and connectivity.
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Yes, we can afford a better future
 
Nice article. Unfortunately, I think most thinking people know this. The unthinking people are saying "But we need to spend billions on military hardware [which doesn't work and which the military doesn't want] in order to fight wars [which we're losing and which worsen our geopolitical position in the world]". I'm not sure there's any reasoning with them/.

We should find some emotive line to grab the unthinking portion of, the way the bad guys do. :p Bleah.

Perhaps there is hope that the populace is thinking more -- leaded gas was banned in the 1970s, and people growing up after the end of leaded gas seem to be more sensible on these and many other issues...
 

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