Failing US Infrastructure
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- Gnash0
and don't forget the built in short-sightedness of 4 year terms in office
- should be one term for 6 yearszenmasterfoo
- for preszenmasterfoo
- drgs0
Nuke the whole continent with napalm, and sow it with 1 meter thick layer of salt, so that no life ever grows out again
- HAHAHAHA.Horp
- Nah, leave Mexico there. It's got some amazing cultural heritage and artefacts.Continuity
- That sounds expensive! O_O lolZOOP
- please shut the fuck up.scarabin
- Horp0
There was something truly glorious about the American idea. I can't see my children growing up dreaming about the breath-taking magic of a land called China, playing make-believe games about Chinese life and talking in Chinese accents to add realism, yearning to see the latest Chinese TV show, hear the latest hit single by a Chinese rock god, taste some Chinese sweets, and hoping one day to visit Chinese theme parks and eat real Chinese porkfood.
- detritus0
You shoud perhaps know that most first world countries labout under the expectation of their infrastructure.
China is going through similar troubels with vastly overeeaching infrrastructure commitments (high speed rail, ghost city building), the scale of which might scupper even them, that big ass country with all its own money, and most of America's.
Chimerica's imploding.
- Jesus Christ, you speltard.detritus
- This is a similar thing as USA's over reaching military and corporate/industrial infrastructure.Dodecahedron
- China is a first world country?drgs
- America is, drgs?detritus
- ZOOP0
Sprawl is a big part of the problem, exactly, with 4 million miles of roads, we've spread ourselves out to the breaking point. I've heard it referred to as "the death of a thousand cuts".
- kona0
i love how every time an anti-US thread pops up, drgs finds it in his heart to stop bench-pressing long enough to post a "fuck the US" comment.
- lolaldebaran
- Discuss.Continuity
- this made me lol.CanHasQBN
- it's not even an anti-US thread, it's just that ignorant fucks show up and make it soscarabin
- just a quick bit from my die america die repertoire, for ya guysdrgs
- wagshaft0
more jobs
- they should make a factory that makes jobs.CanHasQBN
- who'd work there ?mikotondria3
- the chinese of course.CanHasQBN
- aldebaran0
The reality of the situation is there is no fix. Swimming in debt and with the specter of either a default or currency devaluation on the horizon the best thing to do is worry about yourself.
Get your house in order, pay off your debts and start saving some money.
"Tend to your own garden."
- DrBombay0
My governor is Scott Walker, who is like the second coming of Sarah Palin, you have probably seen him in the news. He is blowing $2 billion on highway expansion and turned down $800 million in federal funds for high speed rail. He thinks it is 1955.
- stoplying0
Can I talk you down?
Will you accept $22 and a firm handshake?
- scarabin0
cali freeways look amazing now, incidentally
- DrBombay0
Cutting taxes during wartime, it is almost as if it was designed to create massive debt. No one in this country wins when the currency is devalued to nothing.
- Horp0
On a scale of one to ten, how fucked does it seem to be to you people in America?
I'm asking because the company I work for is doing some work for a US bank at the moment and one of the things we're trying to gauge for them is the general sense of how fucked it feels to the 'average joe'.
Obviously, we're going about the task in a far more professional and organised way than turning up at QBN and asking the question, but I just thought I'd get a rough idea from you lot out of interest...
- Answers here>>>>Horp
- 11aldebaran
- Wow, no answers.Horp
- Oh wait, one answer!
Thanks. Really? 11?Horp - this is a very vague questionscarabin
- a solid 9 if you take everything into consideration, but then again i personally feel America has entitlement issues.ZOOP
- No one is really sure of anything, I think. It is a very apprehensive time.DrBombay
- i don't feel "fucked" at all, just patiently waiting it out to see what unfolds. if i don't like it here i'll go somewhere else.scarabin
- issues.ZOOP
- Not sure what number I would apply to it. It is like the hangover of thinking it was a "1"DrBombay
- It os a vague question Scarabin, I agree, I'm just asking for a vague feeling though. A crude 1-to-10.Horp
- I personally feel extremely fortunate right now.DrBombay
- 5Dodecahedron
- I think the average person has probably tried to put it out of their mind.dMullins
- 5sigg
- CanHasQBN0
^ Your question is so relative.
Compared to the average world citizen... the suck factor is a 1 or 2.
Compared to other forward-thinking 1st world countries (where we should be) suck factor is an 8.
- I guess I'm asking how it personally feels. How close you personally feel the US is to flatlining.Horp
- But its a pretty stupid question and I apologise, I was just curious to know how people might answer.Horp
- Here's the thing... the bank want to know how to sensitively market their credit card in these uncertain times.Horp
- < true story.Horp
- aldebaran0
"Normalcy bias"
The normalcy bias refers to a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects.
- <<< This.... combined with general apathy and distraction techniques to top it all off.ZOOP
- dMullins0
To me, personally, the suck factor is off the charts. I know there is zero I can do about it either outside of my personal sphere of influence...
I read this years ago and it seemed a bit high pompous and exaggerated. As I've grown up, I've come to realize it's 100% true...
- ZOOP0
- detritus0
Money prevails, no matter what.
There'll always be booms, there'll always be busts.
Shit's only really worth worrying about when it slips into war.
And you can bet, next time around—war won't be pretty.
No cold this time. Fucker's going to be hot.
Me, I'm staying positive, because I've been wrong being negative before (years ago, when I cared about such things, and read up on them extensively), but more importantly... if does go wrong, it's really going to go wrong.
Hope's a much underconsidered commodity in the equation..
..which is strange, seeing as it's the bedrock upon which capitalism sits.
- ....I say this as someone who has been directly affected by the recent slump, so I'm not being entirely flippantdetritus
- Dodecahedron0
"Shit's only really worth worrying about when it slips into war."
yeah no need to avoid war or anything.
- pfft, I don't mean the periphal dalliances our countries have invested themselves of late. I mean WWIV.detritus
- ffs, spelogramotard.detritus
- Sorry. Hungry. One cider down. Total lack of coherence.detritus
- do nothing until its too late seems to be your pointDodecahedron
- I made no point.
Be aware, be learned.
Be cautious.
Stock up on weapons.detritus - alrighty...drink up boyz!Dodecahedron
- cider me! both hands!Dodecahedron