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Permalink Reply by Joe Guzzardo on September 4, 2015 at 4:17pm

Thanks for the link, very insightful. If you stop to think about it for about 5 milliseconds, almost all the roadway infrastructure ever built was a taxpayer paid subsidy to the automotive and oil industries. Eisenhower started the interstate highway system back in the '50's, ostensibly to assist our national defense mobilize when necessary, but clearly that wasn't the real reason. It was a corporate welfare project and paid off handsomely for the vested interests. Remember the old saying; "if its good for GM, it's good for America." Back in the '50's GM was the world's largest company. Not all that hard to understand, if you consider that America had the only industrial economy left undamaged by WW2. It took almost a full generation for the rest of the world to rebuild itself but now we're entering a post-industrial world, where ideas carry as much weight (if not more) than physical goods. I call that progress.

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