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To: Road Walker who wrote (1668)	8/15/2008 3:03:39 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 86355

1 - Its not 100% correlation. "Modern American infrastructure projects" are far from "all infrastructure projects at all times". Also modern American infrastructure projects have been privately built, I was just taking a very strong form of what "no government involvement" means. Since the government is taxing, regulation, approving, and otherwise supporting and/or interfering with the project, its always going to be involved, but that hardly implies its necessary, when the private sector is doing the work and reasonably hoping to make a profit from the project. 2 - 100% correlation can be very weak logic. Very large infrastructure projects are not very great in number, esp. if your limiting them to modern projects built in America. Also the government gets itself involved in infrastructure projects and just about anything else, "government getting itself involved", is just what happens when government has the power, and almost always has the desire to get itself involved. It indicates just about nothing, in terms of the necessity or desirability of government involvement on any particular project or in any particular area.