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The only problem with modern infrastructure projects is that the infrastructure doesn't actually get built. They have become welfare programs in disguise.

In the past the government would choose a competent industrialist to lead the construction such as Kaiser to build the Hoover Dam. Imagine the impossibility of appointing a billionaire industrialist to build CA high-speed rail in this age.



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