rightwinger
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What does it mean?."Who would fill the vacuum
EU, S Korea, Japan
All have more social programs and more modern infrastructure because they can lean on us to defend them
Please explain for us all how having more social programs, making citizens dependent on government instead of personal responsibility a good thing?
The question, by the way, is who would fill the vacuum and how would that be great for America?
What "modern infrastructure" does the EU, South Korea or Japan have which we do not.
Please do not go to high-speed rail. The only one in the US that pays its way is the Acela line in the NE with about 40 million potential riders along the line. Any others in the US are losing money as are most in Europe and Japan. If anything, we should expand and improve our FREIGHT lines.
Because helping Americans who need help is a better use of our tax dollars than nation building and propping up foreign empires
Our infrastructure problems go beyond high speed rail......it includes roads, bridges, communications and power grids, water distribution
All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world
What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."
As you know, the vast majority of roads, bridges, and water distribution are all LOCAL matters. Yes, our power grid is extremely vulnerable to a terrorist attack. What has Lame Duck President Obama proposed for our power grid?
Doesn't matter if it is state, local or federal...it is still tax dollars going overseas
Federal money has always "trickled down" to help pay for major infrastructure improvements in the form of grants
Our power grid is ancient and inefficient. Beyond being vulnerable, it lacks the backups and efficient re routing around breakages
So now we have reached a point where it doesn't matter where the tax payers money comes from? Amusing.
Here in Tallahassee, Florida, we have added a major new road joining two northern areas of the county and cutting a great deal of time between the two areas. It was financed by bonds and has a nominal toll to pay for the construction.
Our Capital Circle, originally a truck route running around 3/4th of the outskirts of the city. It was two lanes and has been enlarged to a 4 lane divided lighted highway. It is a Federal Highway. A major subdivision is being built in the SE section of the CC. Florida has a concurrency law that requires developers, in other words, the homeowners in that area, to pay for the needed infrastructure. That massive (for us) cost has been paid for by bonds. Those bonds are being paid from monthly payments by the homeowners of that area to our tax collector over the next 15 years.
Florida is fiscally sound including our government retirement plan, one of the few in the nation. Leon County is a progressive county as the state capital and two universities, a major community college and a major technical school. Yet our state has a Republican governor, house, and senate.
You failed to answer a question I posed. Let me post it again for your convenience.
What does this even mean? Quote from you. "All are substandard...what you expect when you spend 47 cents on every military dollar in the world."
It means we, as a nation, make trade offs
We always find the money to do and the military and engage in wars of questionable value. We always find the money for more prisons
Yet, when we talk about funding for infrastructure, higher education, healthcare, helping the poor....our pockets are empty