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Originally Posted by OOfff
I will freely admit that I believe the country should spend a large amount of money on modernizing and improving our infrastructure in the face of climate change rather than throwing it in the garbage by overspending it on the DoD.
This exact proposal? Maybe not. Elements of it? Sure.
I know. You didn’t have to say it.
I’d be more worried about DoD spending if we weren’t engaged in two low intensity conflicts, weren’t in the midst of replacing decades old weapon systems in mass and the world had shown at any point that it wouldn’t descend straight into another global conflict without Uncle Sam butting in where he often shouldn’t have to.
Climate change doesn’t concern me. The climate is always changing and one good volcanic eruption puts out as much pollution as man has in any given decade. It’s just hysterics to drive an agenda.
Now, leaving the world a better place for my progeny? That I’ll get behind. But I won’t destroy our economy trying to cram it all in in one decade. High speed rail? Complete pipe dream. Offering incentives to start modernizing and greening up our buildings? Sure. Making cleaner fuels and power production a priority? Yup, that’s feasible. And many More.
But just tossing out seismic shifts in policy and our economy/tax system and cramming them down the country’s throat for nebulous fear driven concepts or because we went to the moon in a decade is non productive and a non starter. As is anything that starts with “...well Europe does it”.
Frankly, the progressive Utopia out west is doing such a bang up job of boondoggling their public works rail project that I would think it would be an object lesson as to why some of these things aren’t feasible even if the technology is.