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They aren't, and I'm sick of being told they are
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this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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Gotta say, I agree with your main point... But that is kinda the thing people point at when saying the government is inefficient. The large parts of the US infrastructure is decades past it's expected lifespan, and the US government is not allocating enough funds to fix it quickly enough.
That's exactly it, though. All that infrastructure got built when the government would directly build infrastructure. The Interstate System, the Transcontinental Railroad, these got built because the government got them done. It's only since the birth of neoliberalism during Carter's presidency, and supercharged during Reagan's, where infrastructure only gets done through public private partnerships that things stopped being built.