The reason for continuous military, space, energy and other development isn’t just to push the state of the art, and its not just a jobs program. If you stop building things you forget how. You can still build something but it won’t be nearly as good because the people who learned the mistakes the first time around have all retired. Or in this case fired.
We will have at least a 4 year gap when this is over.
Switching gears, do you think infrastructure will be funded? Falling 4 more years behind in maintenance isn’t going to do any favors. This includes federally maintained dams and bridges, but also levees for storm protection near the coasts. Trump will throw you some paper towels after the next hurricane, then withdraw funding for FEMA.
How about the EPA? Are they going to continue to handle superfund sites? No? Well you can expect some real problems from this to bear fruit in a couple of years. Lawsuits against manufacturers doesn’t bring your home value back, or stop the cancers.
I’m mentioning these things because while people are seeing the damage done by alienating allies, and that is concerning to some, this doesn’t matter to trumps base, who have a particularly America centric viewpoint.
People need to be aware that the problems he brings aren’t just foreign and that if something doesn’t change soon there will be nothing left of the America they knew.
Trying to be cagey for the sake of my own identity. Apologies. Some of this comment is vague. All of it is true.
I have close knowledge of a tightly regulated industry that passes the cost of its infrastructure onto consumers.
About 15 years ago, for about a 10 year period, the guiding principles of the regulatory bodies were that the companies would tend to their own infrastructure, and they did not take proactive steps to ensure that standards were upheld.
The inevitable happened. Record profits. Investment in infrastructure went down. Safety and reliability faltered.
About 5 years ago, things shifted. The political landscape changed, and the regulators stopped sleeping. Now the companies, with their investors and owners demanding these profits (and reliant on investor faith to stay solvent), must legally invest in their infrastructure while also maintaining profits so their investors do not abandon them and destroy their business.
The regulators, bound by law to achieve certain outcomes, are at a crossroads. What they regulate is a necessity. The public who pay for this are sagging under the expense of it.
It’s a shitty catch-22, where there’s no good way forward (short of nationalizing the industry and putting competent, politically isolated people in charge), but there was an easy, easy way to prevent this from occurring in the first place.
Some decisions cannot be undone.
Its more than just foreign relations.
The reason for continuous military, space, energy and other development isn’t just to push the state of the art, and its not just a jobs program. If you stop building things you forget how. You can still build something but it won’t be nearly as good because the people who learned the mistakes the first time around have all retired. Or in this case fired.
We will have at least a 4 year gap when this is over.
Switching gears, do you think infrastructure will be funded? Falling 4 more years behind in maintenance isn’t going to do any favors. This includes federally maintained dams and bridges, but also levees for storm protection near the coasts. Trump will throw you some paper towels after the next hurricane, then withdraw funding for FEMA.
How about the EPA? Are they going to continue to handle superfund sites? No? Well you can expect some real problems from this to bear fruit in a couple of years. Lawsuits against manufacturers doesn’t bring your home value back, or stop the cancers.
I’m mentioning these things because while people are seeing the damage done by alienating allies, and that is concerning to some, this doesn’t matter to trumps base, who have a particularly America centric viewpoint.
People need to be aware that the problems he brings aren’t just foreign and that if something doesn’t change soon there will be nothing left of the America they knew.
Trying to be cagey for the sake of my own identity. Apologies. Some of this comment is vague. All of it is true.
I have close knowledge of a tightly regulated industry that passes the cost of its infrastructure onto consumers.
About 15 years ago, for about a 10 year period, the guiding principles of the regulatory bodies were that the companies would tend to their own infrastructure, and they did not take proactive steps to ensure that standards were upheld.
The inevitable happened. Record profits. Investment in infrastructure went down. Safety and reliability faltered.
About 5 years ago, things shifted. The political landscape changed, and the regulators stopped sleeping. Now the companies, with their investors and owners demanding these profits (and reliant on investor faith to stay solvent), must legally invest in their infrastructure while also maintaining profits so their investors do not abandon them and destroy their business.
The regulators, bound by law to achieve certain outcomes, are at a crossroads. What they regulate is a necessity. The public who pay for this are sagging under the expense of it.
It’s a shitty catch-22, where there’s no good way forward (short of nationalizing the industry and putting competent, politically isolated people in charge), but there was an easy, easy way to prevent this from occurring in the first place.
Some decisions cannot be undone.