"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
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"Bob Fry" wrote in message
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"JH" == Jay Honeck writes:

Perhaps our parents were investing in infrastructure, and we're simply
using it. Thus the apparent efficiency.

Our parents in the 1950s and '60s invested in the Interstate Highway
System, basic electronics research and funding, a great higher
educational system,

That creates functional illiterates.

water and sewage systems,

See the story about the Alaska fish processers.

and an expensive
military. Most of this was paid for with taxes and we got good return
on investment because that tax money was used to pay for
something--basic infrastructure--which would improve the general
economy.

Interesting viewpoint!

For milch cows.