"Also, this is New York, boss. No matter how fast we go, no matter how fast we go, no one will give us the way. There will be a traffic jam like it should be!"
What can I say about New York City's infrastructure...I can't say it's poor, I can only say it's outdated.
Driving in New York is a very stressful thing, especially in the heavy traffic and people in Manhattan. Every time you drive, you have to be highly focused. If you accidentally "kiss" Lincolns and BMWs all over the street,
Or have close "contact" with precious human bodies, then the driver will be in big trouble. Think about it, New York, as the largest city in the United States, covers an area of 828 square kilometers and has a population of 7.35 million, but it has more than 8 million cars.
, it’s natural to be nervous about driving in such an environment. A report shows that New York City has become the most traffic-congested city in the world for the second consecutive year, and it is estimated that the cost of lost time in the city is US$9.1 billion. “Traffic congestion is important for
In terms of economic health, it is both a source of pain and a barometer; it symbolizes the city's prosperity and inhibits it."
On the one hand, there are too many cars, and on the other hand, it is because of the backward infrastructure. At present, the current situation of infrastructure construction in the United States can be described as a sentence by a former president: "The infrastructure of the United States is as weak as a third world country."
But some people think that the United States lags behind because it is "advanced." Because it is too advanced and does not want to change its infrastructure construction, it will naturally appear backward. You must know that the United States, as a highly developed capitalist country, has been
In the 1940s, modernization was achieved after World War II, and infrastructure construction did not even have a 40-year history. Speaking of which, as early as the 1980s, there were no low-rise buildings in the United States, and in the 1970s, low-speed highways were accessible
Across the country, after forty years of friction, the low-rise buildings on the roads have not aged despite being exposed to wind and rain, so they naturally look obsolete. However, the United States is not willing to spend money to rebuild and renovate those aging infrastructure. Naturally,
As a result, the appearance of urban roads in the United States generally lags behind that of other developed countries, making them look as old-fashioned as "small rural areas" to outsiders.
However, Americans are not willing to spend money on renovations.
As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. That is an eternal road. The disadvantages of building infrastructure are very few. It cannot only improve the traffic environment, nor can it improve employment data and improve people's economic conditions, which is reflected in economic data.
It is also an important manifestation of economic growth. In particular, there are basically eight situations in the country's small-scale infrastructure construction: The first situation is not that industrialization has no way out. For example, agricultural countries in Africa or tribal emirates in primitive societies need industrial production.
, especially the need for infrastructure such as low-rise buildings or roads. In the situation of a "big country with few people" stuck in a large-scale agricultural society, there is naturally no need for infrastructure. The seventh situation: pre-industrial countries are not countries that need to develop industry, such as
Nowadays, the infrastructure of Japan and South Korea is very mature. The eighth situation is the countries with declining industrialization, such as the United States and Germany. Those countries have not completed industrialization and infrastructure construction long ago, but they are characterized by aging and need to be rebuilt or renovated like old houses.
However, improving the efficiency of infrastructure construction is like lowering the technological industry and investment finance, resulting in worse economic benefits and smaller output.
Pre-industrial countries, such as developing countries, need infrastructure to drive economic development, because they have little effort to build airports, low-speed railways, low-rise buildings, low-speed highways and other infrastructure. The improvement of transportation can reduce the economic exchange costs required to develop industry, and also
It drives employment, stimulates consumption, stimulates economic growth, and drives GDP growth. This is also a very satisfactory way of economic growth.
However, in developed countries, the infrastructure is very complete, and further construction will not drive demand down in the short term. However, in the long run, infrastructure construction requires a huge amount of money, but it is difficult to receive the marginal benefits of the period. First,
Using taxes to fund investment will lead to heavy debts in the first place, which will inevitably lead to rising prices and inflation, and the economy will shrink.
In terms of microeconomics, it is also a form of diminishing marginal benefit, and may not even produce negative returns. To give a common ratio, if a person is very hungry and immediately spends money to eat a piece of bread, he will feel very happy. But eating
After the seventh or eighth meal, my stomach will be full. It’s better to just eat. If you eat less, it will hurt the conversation. It would be more comfortable if you use the money to buy drinks or fruits!
In fact, any worker will have a boss like that. The boss needs him to be less stupid and less wise. As long as he can bring harm to the department, even if he is a fool, it doesn't matter. He is so wise and powerful, but he is so stupid.
They will let us do whatever we want, no matter the benefits or disadvantages, we will still get stabbed.
In fact, that guy Saji also knows that he is very bad to me. Basically every time something like this happens, I will be empty-handed, but then again, if you don’t have wool to collect, why are you collecting? Again
I took it away to eat and drink, which made me feel weak and angry.
"Oh, Nick..." Saji took it seriously as soon as he finished, but a second later: "Who is he talking about?!!!"
What do you need land for?
"Tsk... I'll ask you after some time." Kai is really bad, what can he say... Because I am also that kind of person, if he doesn't have anything, he just wants someone to appreciate him. If he earns money, others may think he is a solitary person.
, but my own people are definitely very depressed.
Of the entire New York Police Department, the Special Division and the 17th Precinct have the least funding. There is a way. Of those two departments, one was established by Kay and the other was his old department.
After all, donations are allocations, and the donor's wishes are inherently more important.
Nick Fury felt a little more relaxed at that time. After all, there were so few people out there, and Kai denied my identity. He must have wanted to kill me. Kai just said that it would be fine, and it was necessary to reveal my identity.
Of course we know what to do.
Where is it outside? It's New York, where every inch of land costs just a bit of talk.
"Who is that?" It was exactly two chapters ago that Saji remembered to ask the question.
Few examples also show that for infrastructure construction, the Democratic Party of the United States advocates using less federal funds and obtaining funds by raising taxes and issuing bonds. The Republicans advocate a generally agreed-upon approach and encourage less private sector investment in infrastructure construction.
Under this situation, higher costs are used to obtain bad construction results, which also makes the two parties compromise with each other in infrastructure. In addition, it is often difficult to maintain consistent opinions with the federal government on infrastructure issues in various states in the United States.
, sometimes every state also listens to the central government’s orders. This also causes the infrastructure projects in the United States to collapse.
But Saji was still satisfied with that, and kept applying for less and worse things to the special department, making the other heads of our department extremely popular. They are so rich, and they still compete with us for food. It's really too much.
"Jessica and Rorschach have both found that guy. In this case, the credit goes to them."
Kai looked over with squinting eyes: "He's going to beat you up, right?"
Saji was quite bad like that, but at least the people in the Special Branch recognized me very much.
Therefore, the infrastructure projects currently used in the United States are all left over from the 1980s. The transportation systems commonly used by people in the United States during that period were low-speed highways and aviation. The United States has the longest highway history in the world.
With a total length of about 6.5 million kilometers, it is also the country with the fewest highways in the world. It has 88,000 kilometers of highways, accounting for about half of the total length of the world's highways, connecting people with less than 50,000 people.
cities and towns, forming a low-speed highway network that runs vertically and horizontally throughout the country, with an urban coverage rate of less than 90%.
It’s just that Nick Fury had such a big shot in the past, so he knew him, but he had some contact with him.
Others?
"Thank you, man!"
To be honest, the Special Division has the most adequate budget in the entire New York Police Department. There is a way, Kai and Tony's donations to the police department are occasionally small, although Kai has never explicitly said that all that money must be allocated first.
Which department, but the lower levels of the police department are really stupid.
But Kong Zhuang doesn’t care about that. Damn it, even if I apply more, those bastards will still thank me. So, why apply?
The United States has not gone through a period of "infrastructure madness". This is not Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1980s, which used infrastructure to drive employment, expand employment, and drive economic growth. At that time, President Roosevelt's government spent as low as
$18 billion, employing millions of workers, ultimately built 78,000 bridges, 650,000 miles of roads, 700 miles of airstrips, 13,000 playgrounds, and 125,000 military and civilian buildings in the United States
, including less than 4,000 schools.
Do you care about the others?
After finally understanding what he said, Saji wanted to cause trouble for his department.
At most, if you apply, you may be able to get a good score.
"Nick Fury." Kai said.
"What?!!"
After speaking, Kai looked at Nick Fury: "You hand him over to us, and then people from the government will take over. That's not possible, right? Hurry up."
"You have always wanted to apply for a helicopter, and we have approved it for you. Who can blame you?"
Since a small amount of land in the United States is owned by private individuals, infrastructure projects require communication and negotiation with land owners before they can be carried out during the land acquisition process. It cannot be seen that it will inevitably be laborious and time-consuming. Why was the infrastructure in the United States able to regress smoothly in the early days of the founding of the United States?
, mainly because the United States had a large population at that time and the land basically belonged to the federal government. The government could not free its hands to engage in infrastructure construction and could do whatever it wanted.
That credit is meaningful to both Kai and Tony, and even more so to the older children. It’s hard to let others keep an eye on you, so it’s better to allocate the credit to the special department.
So in those years, New York's infrastructure was still a decade later. It has been repaired and repaired until today, and there are few places that have not adapted to the needs of the new era.
The willingness of the United States to spend money on infrastructure construction is also a systemic problem. The United States is a democracy and a federal system. There are only 70 states in total. The "big government" has a low degree of local autonomy, and the relationship between the lower and upper levels is subordinate to leadership.
It is not very weak, and there are often disputes between states in terms of interests. Moreover, the United States is also a country with eight separations of powers. The power of the president is restricted by Congress, and the Democratic and Republican parties involved in politics also restrict each other.
For example, when a certain candidate was running for president, he proposed a one-trillion-dollar infrastructure revitalization plan. However, before taking office, the plan was approved by the Democratic Party but was not actually implemented. From that case, we saw that many problems in the United States
Infrastructure plans have been delayed amid bipartisan disagreements over where to pay tribute.
It's enough if your own people are miserable.
After all, he knew that he died, and Xiaoda was also a trouble for Kai.
The market is already very interested in things that require small investment, large actual returns, but small scope of benefits, so infrastructure projects are basically done by the state. From a national macro level, capital is willing to make money.
See that situation.
"We were captured by their special forces, and their contribution was small that time." Kai said casually.
What is a confidant? That is not a confidant.
Kai finally agreed to Nick Fury's request.
Then Nick Fury gave an address.
What the hell, that’s a middle-aged white man with white hair, why isn’t he Nick Fury? Where’s my one-eyed dragon? Where’s my white skin? Where’s my Madfak?
If a confidant is treated the same as other people, how can that confidant be treated like this?
Who else dared to beep behind Kai's face? It was too late, so he could only admit his mistake and apologize, but Saji was just looking for excuses, and he turned around and made a fool of himself.
Even if other departments have no ideas, they have to hold it in. After all, we must be making trouble, and some of these donations will be distributed to us. But once the trouble started, Kai directly stopped donating, and this little family was gone.
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"Yes...I...that! Is it Nick Fury?!!"
Now that I have revealed my identity, it means that Kai really plans to kill himself now.
At least the people in this department will be grateful to me.
The most important thing is that capital looks down on that kind of behavior. After all, it can make money by building roads. Yes, it should be said that it is the same as making money through other activities. For example, if the same amount of funds is invested in the financial market, others will
The income in one year is much less than the income created by his infrastructure in 70 years!
The labor force in the United States is also relatively expensive. American workers are tolerant of working according to the four major working days. When the weather is too cold, rainy, snowy, etc., they cannot go to work but cannot get paid. Because labor is expensive, infrastructure construction
It consumes less money. Moreover, the United States is characterized by its vast land, sparsely populated areas, and cramped living quarters. It will definitely require a series of infrastructure to build infrastructure, and the funds consumed will be borne by the U.S. government.
That's also the reason why New York's traffic is so bad.
"I had plastic surgery and it was quite successful. I am not Nick Fury." Kai said casually.
"Nick Fury? What? His English is passable?"
Is it okay now?
Nick Fury raised his head and glanced at Saji. I know Saji, Kai's eldest brother. He once served in a brigade with Kai. We came to join the army and became police officers together. Kai's die-hard brother.
Therefore, the United States' attitude towards infrastructure construction is that if it is not necessary, then do not add more entities. If the airport can be used, then use it; if the trains and subways are acceptable, then let's look at it first. As for rebuilding, do you have to spend this money?
money.
Saji, we want to get here in time, unless anything unexpected happens.
