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Yeah, I didn't realise just *how* slow (having only been reading bits of the group for a wee while now).

Seemed to have hit a nerve. Which is entirely surprising as I really thought OldSchool was less sensitive than a box of rocks - only without the utility.

For the record, we have been to China - it is a fascinating country, the little we saw of it, but it is incredibly polluted. Much as the US was during the height of the coal-burning era, and when the rivers ran orange and actually caught on fire.

I guess that would be the Old School of environmental management!

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

Once again proving what a clueless f****it you are.

I've been there twice on vacation. The most striking part of China, is that while we allow bridges full of traffic to fall into rivers, they are plowing tons of money into their infrastructure.

Something similar happened after WW-II - the US infrastructure from rails t o factories was almost entirely worm out due to heavy use. On the other han d, European and Japanese infrastructure was crushed. They built new from ev erything they had learned from the US (Deming), modern production methods a nd more. They revised their entire rail system ... and subsequently cleaned our collective and several clocks for efficiency. They did not have the ma terials and wealth to replace their transportation systems with automobiles , so they maintained their passenger and light-rail systems.

On the other hand, we built the Interstate and Defense Highway system from the 50s to the 80s, where it became the envy of the world. Now, a highway i s designed to last about 25 years without much maintenance. A highway bridg e somewhere to about 50 years, with the upper limits around 75 years. Guys and gals - we are there - and beyond.

Interstate and federal highways are paid for by the gasoline tax. Which has remained at $0.184/gallon since 1993. It should be $0.317/gallon by inflat ion Writing for myself, I would gladly pay that amount if I could be assure of safe bridges and highways, and better public transportation options - a nd that it would not be diverted for other purposes.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

We've gone a little off topic, but in Germany we paid $9 a gallon for gas - and there wasn't a pothole from one end of the Autobahn to the other.

On Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 8:57:31 AM UTC-4, snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote: and that it would not be diverted for other purposes.

Well there's the rub Peter. No money will ever not be spent elsewhere as " needed". SSI was solvent as originally devised, but once it was determined that SSI was flush with funds, it got redirected. Now it's part of the en titlement vote buying handout system. People who have never contributed to SSI can collect.

Here in CT, the casino money was supposed to be earmarked to just education . With CT's finances a full fledged dumpster fire all money goes into the general fund.