re: #173 buzzsawmonkey

Wouldn’t it make sense, if these houses are abandoned, to have them etc

You dreamer, you! ;-)

IMHO, for a major program to get through Congress, a critical preponderance of special interests is required. You have to hope that the special-interest part does not outweigh the overall national interest, but there is no guarantee. Pro or con, the special interests don’t care; the national interest is just a pretext to them.

At first glance, your proposals are in the overall national interest, but I can’t think of entrenched interests that they would help and I can think of some that they would hurt. (And there’s that whole market-economy thing…)

I’ll be very pleasantly very surprised if your proposals come to pass, but I’ll upding you for well-intentioned ingenuity.

Find a formulation that incorporates profits and special-interest gimmes and you might have something.