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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by arrosenberg on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:13PM (#27911515)
Lobbyists are paid for by private businesses, to win contracts which will be poorly performed by privately owned contractors.

OTOH the US Government, with programs run by publicly paid employees: went to the moon, built a ton of dams, including the Hoover and Grand Coulee, electrified the Tennessee Valley, built the interstate highway system, etc.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by bluedevil2k on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:39PM (#27911838)
Can you come up with any projects the US government has done successfully in the last 50 years though?
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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by dboreham on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:13PM (#27914530)
The internet?
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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by arrosenberg on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:07PM (#27912190)
The Affordable Care Act website, despite the initial difficulties, is a pretty impressive feat. That said, the issue for me is that people parrot Reaganisms blaming the government, without stopping to consider cause and effect or history. The US Government was intentionally stripped of it's capabilities so private sector oligarchs could gorge off the public dole, and that's where we are at today. The solution is to rebuild those capabilities, not to surrender completely.
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