[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.

[biblewonk]

It's all about jobs.

How about if we just destroy the rail industry and replace it with millions of trucks and truckers. Now that's a labor intensive, job intensive, expensive way to move things around a hugh country like this.