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    14 days ago

    Building necessary public works projects is great. Building them for the sake of giving people something to do isn’t

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        13 days ago

        In that case, I err on the side of no. While I’m not a fan of make-work, there are a lot of necessary public works projects for the docket. These should be prioritized over those that are just “nice”. And beyond this, most infrastructure problems require some kind of maintenance - something we are already far behind on. Adding to that maintenance backlog by building additional things which are unnecessary seems ill advised.