Is that I have to deal with paradigms that are so screwed up that it takes a lot of spadework to get past them.
For most of our history, well into my own lifetime, there was almost no such thing as "Federal infrastructure." The interstate highway system was new and unique. Almost everything liberals talk about as "infrastructure" was financed and built by states, localities, and in many cases, the private sector. And surprisingly, this is still largely the case.
Less than a quarter of infrastructure capital now comes from the Federal government, and less than 7 percent of maintenance of existing infrastructure.
Now, unless Washington builds it, we are told it won't get built. Why?
Note that you have defined a "reasonable conservative" as one who accepts the Left's idea that the Federal government should run everything. Note also the treatment Romney got when he broached the idea that maybe our disaster response should be decentralized a bit more.
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