• OberonSwanson
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    Assuredly it will be done with little oversight, managed by a shell corporation ran be a close constituent that is over charging per a tree and will never be completed.

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      The problem is that even if it was “done right” it would:

      • Require three times the land area of India
      • Be a partial solution, and not the kind of complete solution that the Republicans are trying to claim it as
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        Exactly this. Impractical answers are what they live off, because it lets them stall. It’s depressing there’s no solutions apart from “keep doing dumb shit for money” on their wheel of choices.

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          It let’s them stall and line their pockets while being able to say government doesn’t work and everything should be privatized

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      This is the only way this makes sense. It’s def gonna be a situation where $millions+ disappear, they never plant the trees, and everyone forgets this was ever promised.

      We’ll point to this as an example of why we can’t trust Republicans, and they’ll just come back with something about Clinton’s BJ