Jim Yanik wrote:
(snip)

Most
of the stuff the feds give aid money to state and local governments for,
should have been financed at the local level in the first place. (And if
the people that benefit from a service are not willing to pay for it,
well, maybe it shouldn't happen?)

OTOH,kinda hard to build Interstate highways when a few states say no to
their part.

Exceptions like that are why I said 'most'. Although there have been
some glorious fubars in the execution, not to mention lotsa
pork-barreling in the routing and picking of contractors, Ike's Autobahn
system has been one of the few federally-driven major projects that has
worked pretty well. (Although without it, Walmart likely never would
have made it out of Arkansas...)

This is way OT already, so I'll pass on commenting on the pork passed
out to cities and quasi-governmental agencies for 'redevelopment'.
(Well, one little comment- I've been in this town almost 30 years, and
the old downtown, and the old rich parts of town that have been slums
for sixty years, have been continuously executing federally-assisted
'redevelopment' plans since I got here. Get a clue, folks- it ain't
working.)

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aem sends...