# What happened to our "crumbling natl. infrastructure," c. 1985?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 18, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-our-crumbling-natl-infrastructure-c-1985/331602 "2005-11-18T03:53:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-our-crumbling-natl-infrastructure-c-1985/331602/21 "2005-11-19T15:42:03Z")

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> Often, a local community can’t afford that sort of thing. That’s partly what the federal government is for, to handle the project locals can’t.

Mayhap. But given how much $$ Louisiana was sucking down, for what seems like a vast array of questionable projects, I vote they can pay for it all themmselves from now on.

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