I realize you are probably in the opinion that government does not exist to solve problems (or if so, a very, very limited set of them). And that's fine, but don't go around thinking that that point of view is law. There is a big difference between wanting a smarter government and communism, and even if there wasn't, that's no reason for being an attack dog. Those that do not admit to seeing at least a tiny bit of truth to others contrary claims are probably to shaded to be commenting.
Quite possible, but when arguing with someone on the merits of the intelligence of a given course of action, I don't dismiss a written, plain as day law as something to ignore. I argue that the law is wrong and needs changed, not that it doesn't exist simply because I don't like it. You will not find me saying piracy is legal in the United States, you'll find me saying our copyright laws are as insane as the piracy advocates are, and probably more damaging to the related industries as well.
Ignoring whatever restrictions on power you find unpalatable will only end in one of two destination. A strong, dictatorial central government with a long reach into your private life. Or a complete economic collapse, whichever comes first. Neither are good, and both tend to end in a bloody revolution.
When it became a "living document" that changed it's meaning based on the views of it's reader, we were fucked. They used their new found meanings to take over the system, warp entire generations, and bypass the electoral process that would have prevented civilization altering changes in governance. Now we're a country filled with ignorant morons that can't even read what a law says without going to consult another half dozen books and see what a bunch of trained liars decided it really meant in the end.
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I'm not thinking Anchorage. I'm thinking Seward and Talkeetna. There they have to resurface the roads every YEAR.
Part weather, part stupidity. Well, no, mostly stupidity. The idiots around here in southern Oklahoma are doing the same damned thing, it's pathetic really. They put an inch and a half of pavent on top of dirt and expect it to last more than six months. Naturally, they replace large sections of the roadwork multiple times a year. Anchorage used to have much better roads than they do now, they used a harder gravel in the asphalt, but they never built good roads. The stuff they use now is so soft they actually do get wear patterns in the busiest intersections before the frost heaves make it necessity.
Frost heaving and other forms of water erosion can be all but eliminated, it just requires putting in several feet of rock. The less rock you put down, and small towns are typically worse about it than large cities, the quicker the frost heaves wipe it out. You can build a fifty year road pretty much anywhere in the country, it's just damned expensive to dig deep and out, put down all that tonnage of rock, and surface it well. They see how much it costs, realize they can redo them for a decade or two in the interim on the cost, and ignore the long term implications.
