General Discussion

Profit trumps the public good in the USA. Always.

That's the primary reason we don't have a nationwide high-speed passenger rail network. It won't be profitable, at least not for decades, anyway.

It's the primary reason we don't have a lot of things that much smaller countries have enjoyed for decades.

Americans would rather stroke their collective johnsons over the fact that we have this massive military with all the latest and greatest things that go *BOOM*, yet we have people who are convicted felons (referencing a DU'er who recently shared their story) because they simply tried to keep their heads above water while trying to get the medical care they need.

This country is broken in astonishingly dumb ways, all easily fixed if we can just get the lobbyists off Capital Hill and elect people that aren't on the take.