[kungtotte]

I know why, on a practical and political level, why things are the way they are. I'm questioning the status quo: I think policies should be implemented and government funds should be allocated such that we change the current status quo.

I am very much not a believer in the supremacy of the free market.

[magduf]

>I'm questioning the status quo: I think policies should be implemented and government funds should be allocated such that we change the current status quo.

Americans don't believe in this; they believe in the status quo which is not spending anything on infrastructure and letting it decay. Look at who they vote for, and the infrastructural policies they push.