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Actually, I'd like to expand on my last post by talking about Bernie Sanders infrastructure plan.

Bernie Sanders wants to spend $1 Trillion over a five year period to fix Americas infrastructure. That $200 billion a year seems like an awful lot of money, right? But, here's the thing. It's very expensive to let the roads get worse too.

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) reports that 32% of American roads are in disrepair, and that the current state of Americas roadways costs the U.S. $67 billion a year in increased operating and repair costs. That's more than $320 per driver, per year.

To make matters worse, the primary way the Federal Government funds infrastructure in this country (the gas tax) has been gutted. For one, only half of the gas tax goes into the Highway Trust Fund (you have Bill Clinton to thank for that), and, the gas tax hasn't been raised since 1993.

Long story short, many of our major systems (education, health care, infrastructure, ect.) need to be fixed, and that won't happen until someone is willing to spend the time and money necessary to do so.



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I bet that on launch the Nintendo Switch will have no built in in-game voice chat. He bets that it will. The winner gets six months of avatar control over the other user.