Do you think American people of today is capable of this? Why and why not?

In the beginning, the building of Golden Gate Bridge in San Fran is grimly underfunded. To move the whole grand project out of the quagmire, politicians, businessmen, bankers and average Joes put their own properties as collateral to ensure bonds were successfully released to provide sufficient financial support for the project, which is incredibly patriotic and a stellar display of unity and fraternal love.

Can something equivalent be done today? Why and why not?

If it can't be done, what happened? What happened to America?

 

Today, they outsource everything.

You know there is a Bridge in California that is Made in China?
That is just what I know about, I'm sure they've outsource many more construction projects, including the Martin Luther King Memorial, which is also Made in China.

 

We convinced people that they were entitled to more than the consequence of their efforts. So now a guy who's standing by a cash register asking "do you want fries with that?" believes contributing 10% of his wages is paying his share and has no aspirations to accomplish more or make the community around him better.




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There are recent examples of such patriotism. During the 2008 financial meltdown not all banks were saturated with these bad loans. Bank of America did not have a huge amount of the bad loans. The US government was meeting with all these banks and trying to get them to help find a solution. Bank of America agreed to take on a large amount of these loans stopping the domino effect of the banks failing. The CEO lost his job as a result but the banking system didn't suffer nearly as bad as it would have had Bank of America not done this.

 

It's called Kickstarter. No one uses it for community benefits, though. Only personal gain. That's the culture of America. You just now figuring this out? You yourself argue routinely (since I was last here 6 months ago) about ways to not share the wealth we have in the united states saying some people don't deserve to be helped...yet, I'm fairly certain that bridge was not directly and voluntarily funded by every single person who's ever driven on it, yet it benefits them as it's a way to get from point a to b.

Now you ask me...is the problem America or is it everyone's problem individually? Until you can answer that question for yourself, anything we say is pointless.