Very true, but the world has changed hugely since those days. We ought to be able to do better though, but we just don't. It was something like 17 years ago the bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, and that the time Civil Engineers were saying our infrastructure needed 5-7 trillion of investment to bring it all up to snuff. Virtually nothing was done, and today we can't get the government ( the you-know-whos ) to allocate money for anything but defense.
The people who suck money from our economy put nothing back anymore and will not even pay their taxes.
Meanwhile:
- most Americans are paying 2-3 times as much for their cellphones and broadband than citizens of every other developed country,
- many multiples of that for their medicines,
- locked out of the future by the escalating cost of higher education that other countries give free to their citizens
- and the average worker earns less every year.
No other developed country in the world has a concerted genocide going on against their citizens, and if they did none of their citizens would ever vote for the party in power. We think of China as the country that enslaves its citizens, but the standard of living in China is rising for all Chinese citizens.
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