• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    10 months ago

    Two are depression era programs and the third was a military project built in an area without much of anything. It has been the preference of the Federal government over several generations to outsource construction. That isn’t going to change any time soon.

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        10 months ago

        This is the international norm. The closest to government control has been China’s State Owned Enterprises, but even then China pushed these to be run as private companies without the protections afforded to employees that they would have as government employees. China also created SOE’s as the local market didn’t have the local experience to build the initial projects.

        Government operation of part of the construction industry is very low on the public’s list of things that need to be done and it isn’t exactly certain that the control will produce cheaper projects.

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          10 months ago

          All I did was notice that “that won’t change anytime soon” is said frequently by Democrats.

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              10 months ago

              So you’re responding to my comment about broader context by acting like I was talking about this one thing. Ok.

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      10 months ago

      me: “these projects should be administered by government managed offices”

      you: “actually that’s never been done before”

      me: “here are some examples of when it was done”

      you: “well those were government-managed projects”

      ???