Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Trillion-Dollar Sponge City Projects Are Useless, Severe Floods Hit Three Provinces" video.

  1. American exceptionalism IS a thing, but it's been twisted to mean "We act against our principles because we have better principles." American exceptionalism is SUPPOSED to mean we have rights and our government doesn't run amuck because we the people keep it in check. We the people have failed to keep our government in check. This makes us very un-exceptional. Nevertheless, the notion that people have Natural Rights that supersede the powers and desires of our government IS an exceptional idea that's being destroyed by people who have twisted its true meaning in order to rule the world. American people HATE that $hit. That's why it's kept off the airwaves and cable news.
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  2.  @markdowse3572  I've noticed posts from one video showing up on others. I think YT likes to mess with me because I'm a freeloader who hates the Machine and I comment a lot.
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  3. All good stuff. Another idea is to not build in the flood plain.
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  4. I don't think they don't care. These failures are bad for the CCP. The trouble is, because they're top-down on everything, the people at the bottom actually doing the work are not given sufficient resources to do jobs properly. First the government officials get their cut. Then the low bid who won the contract sub-contracts it out to another contractor, after taking their skim. This might happen 3 or 4 times before it actually gets to the people actually doing the work. This is called "Tofu Dregs" construction. Sad thing (encouraging thing) is that if you gave the actual contractors who DO the work sufficient resources, the Chinese are fantastic builders. But because they insist on controlling everything from the top, they can't get out of their own way, and it makes them look, well, like Chinese! Imagine the waste, fraud and corruption of USA's military-industrial complex. Now extend that across ALL industrial sectors. That's the Chinese economy. Sadly, this is a direction the USA's been headed since the logistics crowd during World War II started using linear programming to get soldiers, weapons, tanks and planes shipped off to Europe and kept them supplied. They got a read hard-on for controlling/managing entire economies and they're trying to micro-manage the USA economy with punishments for x, subsidies for y, and never-ending inefficiency and corruption. If top-down planning actually WORKED for an economy, we'd all have been speaking Russian by 1980.
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  5.  @sootuckchoong7077  Good point. Good sarcasm. To the extent that the USA behaves badly, that's just as bad, if not worse, because of all the moral posturing we do.
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