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Take a look at are highways. Despite constant complaints about them being in trouble, we build a lot of them including many bridges. Take a look at your city there is someplace in the metro area they are building something big.

Fasting growing doesn't mean much. Most people have insurance which covers everything. Yes there are too many people on the edges who don't have it, but most people do and don't need gofundme (I suspect some of them have a gofundme anyway as a way to raise money because they can)

Sure we don't do massive society wide projects, but that is because we don't need them. That doesn't mean we can't.




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I know we're all stressed right now, and you make some good points, but your post would be a lot stronger and more welcome here if you took out the ad-homonyms and insults.




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