You know what really highlights Americas decline for me? The lack of grand infrastructure projects over the last 50+ years. 

I don’t think we could build the Hoover dam today or the Golden Gate Bridge. It would take 30 years and go 900% over budget. 

When you look at empires that have fallen through history, many of them built their most grand structures early in their reign. The great pyramid, the colosseum, the temples of Angkor wat, were all built early in the reign of their respective empires.

The new World Trade Center took roughly 20 years, and that only the first tower. In comparison, the Empire State Building was built in a little over a year, in 1931.

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Great example. Another would be the boondoggle high speed rail they’ve been building for 20 years in California. 

There’s too much red tape and too many different interests involved with everything to do anything like that anymore.

Trying to build something and you have to get 70 permits and do a 2 year environmental impact study, another period for community feedback, and all sorts of other random stuff.