flicker@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•'They've just killed innocent people': Anger in Lebanon after Israeli strike - as teddy bears and children's shoes among rubbleEnglish
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1 month agoWhen I was maybe 10 years old back in the 90s I asked my Dad why we put a bunch of people in a heavily populated area “when Montana is just sitting there empty. I mean, someone uses the land and we get like, taxes and museums and maybe an amusement park, right?”
He seemed genuinely poleaxed.
I still don’t have an answer to this day!
He’s dead? So tell him yourself I guess lol.
Anyways, why would you “spread everyone out evenly?” We stuffed them into a tiny space that was already occupied. One assumes they’d be plopped into a town, which would centralize creating things like roads.
And the roads in Montana might suck, but there should be some kind of domestic package at play that would help from the federal level to create things like roads and water treatment and all that. Compared to how much we give Isreal now… could’ve put that money into development somewhere stateside.