text: "It takes extraordinary events like the I-25 truck inferno to remind us that government is essential and can be a positive good."
  
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  Government can be essential, to certain essential things. To unessential things, not so much.
  
  Props where it's deserved. They got the job done in this case, although we'll never know if a contractor could have done it as well, better, or cheaper.