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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: TimF who wrote (135020)3/27/2001 8:43:30 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1571769
 
"There are bad traffic jams all over the US."

LA is bad. Ok, Atlanta is worse, but not by much. It is almost as bad as Houston during Boom Time, and Houston has only just gotten ahead of things at the peak, some 20 years afterwards. It takes a long, long time to budget, plan and actually build roads. If California does not have a separate Highway Fund (like we do in Texas), then the shortfall in road construction matches up pretty well with Prop. 13.

"And in 78 there was not any place where things where breaking down in CA?"

Maybe not. In 1978 California was a long way from any type of reality check. They were doing far better than the rest of the country and had every reason to believe that it would always be that way. Of course they were wrong, but there was no proof, other than the fact that you cannot make linear projections into the future.
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