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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And seeing how horrendous our infrastructure is.  How does America have the largest GDP in the world, yet it seems like we.have given up on development of the country since the 70s? America's development post-WW2 seems to have stalled out a long time ago.  As soon as I get back to the US, it took almost 75 miites to get through customs and to get our bags on a well outdated carousel at JFK.  In Asia, they have the entire process already automated in many countries, where you are in and through customs in a matter of minutes. Bags are rapidly delivered to the carousel.  As soon as we leave JFK via air tram, there were homeless people everywhere in the station, and the trains everywhere were late.  Piles of trash were everywhere near the rail lines once we got on Amtrak, and there were shanty towns and boarded up buildings everywhere along the way going south from NY to DC.  Contrast that to South Korea or Japan where trains are super clean, there are basically zero homeless people anywhere, and it truly feels like you're in a modern country with 21st century development and infrastructure. Hell, something as basic as cell phone service and wifi works anywhere you go on a train in South Korea and even if you're in a tunnel, because because of how well connected the country is.  As soon as we left Penn Station, cell phone service stops working in multiple spots because of lack of reception in some tunnels.  It is just super jarring to come back home and see just how horrendously behind we are with the rest of t developed world.  America just seems to have given up on improving itself for a long time now.  But at least we got a $1T fighter jet program I guess? [/quote]
Because the GOP abdicated any interest in the public good around the 70s. [/quote]

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