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Plucketeer

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13. After careful consideration

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2015, 07:08 PM

Feb 2015

I think our roads and bridges are acceptable the way they are. Once in awhile, a bridge may fail, but really, relatively few of our minion millions are injured or killed in such an incident. Staying focused on lowering the debt is something that affects everybody - fixing a bridge only benefits a few.

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