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  It’s abysmal how behind this nation is infrastructure wise.
  
  It makes a bit more sense when you consider the US is the only developed nation that is still growing, and doing so pretty quickly, all things considered.
context: “We are dealing with an old, crumbling system that continues to offer challenge after challenge,”
  
  if only we invested in our own infrastructure like so many other developed nations do >
  
  This is what “running the government like a business” gets: a preoccupation with minimizing spending, particularly on non-immediate (but necessary and inevitable) expenditures. >
  
  "running goverment like a business" really means rich people not having to pay taxes. >
  
  "run the government like a business" You know, where one guy on top reaps a disproportionate amount of the benefits by exploiting the people at the bottom. >
  
  Oh, so like a monarchy? >
  
  No no, a monarch is at least ostensibly accountable to their people. A business can just laugh when people are angry at them. >
  
  Yep. Koch Energy may have poisoned rivers repeatedly, lobbied for laws that benefitted them at the expense of workers and citizens, and supported candidates opposed to basic human rights. But, good luck switching to a competitor. >
  
  It is not just the infrastructure.
  In Atlanta, we had multiple water pipes break in our building's parking garage.  The design was built to withstand below freezing temperatures for a handful of days.
  Not temperatures in the teens for almost a week, it just doesn't get that bitterly cold down here to call for the insulation necessary for that. >
  
  It definitely was cold for an extended period of time. That can freeze and break those pipes. >
  
  The South was not designed for this weather. What a shock >
  
  I live in the South and this cold snap is nothing new. In fact in my area we reach lows like this every single year. 
  The major difference this year is that our outdated infrastructure and massive population growth simply cannot handle any sort of strain. It’s abysmal how behind this nation is infrastructure wise.