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[quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately, politicians/bureaucrats don't get credit when they successfully prevent deaths and save citizens from grievous injury.

But they do get blame when they try to force private citizens and businesses to make changes to be safer/more efficient/pay for their negative externalities.

Not sure how to fix this dilemma. It goes to a deeper problem of "me me me" culture and the loss of the American sense of community. It's become so extreme that certain segments of adults shrug their shoulders at dead kids.

I even see this with my retiree in-laws in MoCo who sent 5 kids through the local public schools: "Why do I need to pay for the schools? Why are services so expensive? What am I getting for my money?" It's really, really problematic: we have a growing school age population across the county and not enough infrastructure and capacity to deal with it. Meanwhile, the county's wealthiest residents - older homeowners who have seen big equity increases due to the rising population - are very opposed to new school construction, sidewalks, and necessary spending. [/quote]

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