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Victor Davis Hanson: When did we get so small? How We Pale to Previous Generations

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Members of Previous Generations Now Seem Like Giants | National Review

When California had to replace a quarter section of the earthquake-damaged San Francisco Bay Bridge, it turned into a near-disaster, with eleven years of acrimony, fighting, cost overruns — and a commentary on our decline into Dark Ages primitivism. Yet 82 years ago, our ancestors built four times the length of our singe replacement span in less than four years. It took them just two years to design the entire Bay Bridge and award the contracts.

Our generation required five years just to plan to replace a single section. In inflation-adjusted dollars, we spent six times the money on one quarter of the length of the bridge and required 13 agencies to grant approval. In 1936, just one agency oversaw the entire bridge project.
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We can’t get anything done because we have regulated ourselves to a halt.
 
chuckiechan said:
Members of Previous Generations Now Seem Like Giants | National Review



We can’t get anything done because we have regulated ourselves to a halt.
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Then you have the lawsuits brought by activists who have agendas. That delays civic projects even more.

A guy wanted to build an apartment building in San Francisco, god knows they need the housing. The planning department refused the permit after some neighbors complained that the building would cast a shadow.
 
I guess that's why the young men (boys, really) who fought in World War II were called the "Greatest Generation."

Yes, each generation has its good points and bad points.

The two most current generations certainly have their good points, but they certainly have a lot of failings, too.
 
chuckiechan said:
We can’t get anything done because we have regulated ourselves to a halt.
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Ummm... no. This has nothing to do with regulation. This has to do with your irrational hatred of the government. Back in the days of FDR and Eisenhower people paid taxes and trusted their leaders to make good investments in infrastructure with that money and by and large they did. The problem we have is that ****ty idiots like Reagan convinced the world that government was our enemy instead of being a powerful tool for good.

The result is that every little thing the government does is under so much ridiculous scrutiny that they can't make any decisions whatsoever. Not matter what they do some one is going to use whatever decision they make against them.
 
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