waste is waste yeah whenever we say things like oh we need to spend on roads and bridges what people should understand is that every single year in the united states the local state and federal government spend upwards of NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars upgrading roads and bridges in the united states because the vast majority of roads and bridges in the united states are not run by the federal government the federal government runs the dams the roads and bridges are run by states and localities so even the stuff they're spending now is just crap but with that said a big bloated spending bill that basically just throws money at things that's what congress does for a living i'm much more concerned so yeah the roads and bridges though make a big problem for us and it gets to this problem of well just let california die and be a bad example or uh to your point of their different conservatives you know different kinds of states to drew's point to that was certainly true in the past i mean the states were very very different all politics was local that's what tip o'neill used to say but increasingly since we built the interstate highway system since we had tv since we had radio since we have the internet since we have this gigantic federal government that homogenizes everything all the politics seems to be national and so to your you said it too ben it starts in san francisco it goes to l.a it goes to chicago goes to new york then it's for the whole country and so there is this fear as goes california so goes but i think i think that's a little different the reason i say that is i i will say my mind has changed radically in terms in terms of optimism which is a rare thing for me having moved from california to florida because when you're in california you grow up and you think of yourself as california kind of culturally like i was born there so you think of yourself as like you're culturally californian in the same way you're culturally new york right and but you don't think of yourself as like a citizen of a state that is sometimes in opposition to the federal government when you're in california what you mostly think of yourself as is an adjunct of the federal government who likes speeches in hollywood right that's that really is how you think of yourself it's not like you're a separate citizen of california the federal government is never something that is radically opposed to you it's something that's doing most of the things that you would be doing in your own state anyway but now you're a florida man now i'm a florida man and let me just tell you florida is damned incredible and it's one of the reasons that florida is so great is because florida does oppose a lot of what the federal government is doing and so you start to think of yourself as of course i'm an american of course but i'm also a floridian and my state does not agree with the federal government NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN signatures over on our petition we really appreciate that the extra NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN people have come on since the last time we updated that's at URL_TOKEN do not comply you know it's important to have a
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