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Originally posted by Double A
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Originally posted by Kenosha
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Originally posted by Double A
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Originally posted by FOTD
That's nuts.
+1. This guy is full of expensive, hair brained ideas. I'm surprised he's not employed in the Taylor administration.
Wanna know what else is expensive?
Maintaining an elevated highway.
Not maintaining it and letting it deteriorate to the state it's in makes it expensive, if it had been maintained it wouldn't be that expensive.
I don't know how to say this nicely.
You are talking out of your donkey. Really...you don't know what the f**k you are talking about. Nonetheless, your uninformed, offhanded comments are relayed as facts, which they are not....
Maintaining highways is expensive. Which is why it hasn't been done properly. If it wasn't expensive, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Secondly, I repeatedly hear you say that this or that won't pay for itself when referring to public projects. Let's get something straight. If public money only went towards things that paid for themselves we'd have.....NOTHING.
No Sewers
No Sewage Treatment
No Stormwater Management
No ROADS...which are the worst offender of the "not paying for itself" criteria
No Urban Planning of any sort.
Social Security
Wars...wait, maybe we are on to something here.
Public Transportation
Parks
Sidewalks
Any kind of maintenance for the above items.
Police
Fire
.....
Truthfully, my brain hurts trying to think of all the things that don't "pay for themselves".
We might have water and garbage service.
The point is...this is an unacceptable criteria for evaluating the value of most public projects. They do create value, which may or may not translate in to increased revenue operational and capital needs. The only reason the "pay for itself" is brought up is to scuttle an otherwise worthy project.
I paint my house. It creates value. Is it dollar for dollar value? No, but not painting it is, dollar for dollar, much worse.