The states have to actually use the road money to fix the roads.
This is a problem.
1. Because it is so easy to just cry to the Fed Gov't to grab more cash,
it becomes a nice available eternal flow of cash for things.
Nobody is counting, really.
I hate accounting too.
It is a boring subject, who cares if some folks got beach houses, swimming pools, as long as I get mine?
Issue 2: Government jobs moved from low pay civil service, to the golden path
(road?) to guaranteed riches in the US.
Cost of being a whistleblower is getting booted from the gravy train
and having to get a job.
You want fries with that?
Problem states, problem areas are generally one party controlled.
Things done on a "Friend Of" Basis.
Does not matter which party, once you have nobody screaming foul,
or a small enough community to take notice, it goes astray.
3: MSM abandonment of journalism.
Our Watchdogs are in the buffet line.
Look, some guy over there said the N word, and Not in a Rap Song!
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All of this is why the US pays the most and gets the least return in many areas.
Roads, education...
Too Big to Count.