[biblewonk]

Ya know, if we were still driving our own, isolationist rust buckets that fell apart at 80K miles, there'd be a lot more people employed by our auto industry.

How about if we simply made it impossible to buy anything but those cars here. That's secure a lot of fat union jobs for detroitians.

[newgeezer]

Exactly my point. There are people out there who find nothing at all wrong with that scenario.

By the same token, we would do the economy a great service by building highways where they're not needed, and by using inferior processes and materials in those we do need, so that they'll require more frequent resurfacing.

It's all about jobs.