Building infrastructure is in no way different than people relying on government to oversee the administration of health insurance or relying on government to regulate the financial industry, and any number of other things that government does better than private industry.

As I said before, I'm not the one who doesn't get it. It's the poster who thinks they know everything, including the contents of other peoples' minds who doesn't get it.

Here's the facts. Nobody in the world does everything for him or herself. Everybody in the world relies on other people to help them get their needs met. The only question is who is going to be relied on for that purpose. In the kind of capitalist system that this country has been utilizing for the last few decades, the focus has been on the market to perform this function. As we can see, the market is useless for some functions. It does not do a good job of providing health care, access to roads, education, keeping the peace, providing for people in their old age, and quite a few other things in which profit motive creates a conflict of interest.

The only question is how much of our needs will be met through government administered programs, and how much through the market. There is no situation in which everything can be provided by the market alone.

And this habit of the poster whose points I am addressing, of constantly making personal comments about those he/she is addressing, doesn't assist that person in making their points more effectively. That habit just makes him/her look rather clueleses and pompous.