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  • Adequately is a difficult determination.

    Is it adequate if there are state maintained dirt roads? In some states, the state or county chooses not to pave all of their roads.

    Is it adequately funded if they have potholes? Due to weather conditions, some states are notorious for potholes.

    Is it adequately funded if the road gets washed out or carried away by flooding? California gets mudslides that take out sections of roads, other states get sinkholes or hurricanes/tornados destroying their roads

    How long can one of these issues plague a road before we consider them underfunded?

    My opinion is that the US has too many roads. Most roads are maintained by county or municipalities, and are funded through infinite growth model.

    When a developer creates a new subdivision, they pave the roads. Once done, they usually relinquish these roads to the county/city who are responsible for maintaining the roads.

    Typically maintenance is low until they require replacing. The cities and counties don’t save money or plan well for replacing these roads and rely on new tax revenue to fund replacing them.

    It builds a slowly ballooning road maintenance cost that someone will have to pay. I believe someone made a video about this very fact. I don’t have the link handy





  • Anti Jewish sentiment has been a long standing thing.

    It stems a lot of things, but I think it’s mainly from Christian’s in the olden days not being allowed to loan money with interest, so the Jews filled this role. They also are very insular and tend to marry within their sect.

    Due to their ability to charge interest, they quickly became rich.

    Imagine you are a ruler, and you have these religious folks who have massive amounts of wealth and thus influence, don’t share your religion and beliefs, etc. It’s also easy for less educated to believe they control everything, when the Jews are controlling a large part of banking.

    It becomes advantageous to push anti Jewish sentiment and say they are evil, etc.

    Again, my opinion and I could be wrong