Chapter 1942 Achievement (Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket!!! Please Subscribe!!! Please Recommend!!!)

"Besides, this is New York, boss. How fast can we go? No one will give way to us. There will be traffic jams!"

What can I say about New York City's infrastructure... It can't be said to be bad, it can only be said to be outdated.

Driving in New York is a very stressful thing, especially in the heavy traffic and flow of people in Manhattan. Every time you drive, you have to concentrate highly. If you accidentally "kiss" Lincolns and BMWs on the streets, or "contact" with precious human bodies, the driver will be in big trouble. Think about it, New York is the largest city in the United States, with an area of ​​828 square kilometers and a population of 7.35 million, but there are more than 8 million cars. It is natural to be nervous when driving in such an environment. A report shows that New York City has become the most congested city in the world for the second consecutive year. It is estimated that the city has lost $9.1 billion in time costs. "Traffic congestion is both a source of pain and a barometer for economic health; it symbolizes the prosperity of the city and suppresses prosperity,"

There are many cars on the one hand, and the backwardness of infrastructure on the other hand. At present, the current situation of infrastructure construction in the United States can be described as a former president said: "The infrastructure of the United States is as weak as that of a third world country."

But some people think that the United States lags behind because it is "advanced". Because it is too advanced, it does not want to change its infrastructure construction, so it naturally lags behind. You should know that as a highly developed capitalist country, the United States achieved modernization as early as the 1940s, after World War II, and its infrastructure construction has a history of 80 years. It can be said that as early as the 1930s, the United States had high-rise buildings, and in the 1950s, highways reached the whole country. After 80 years of friction, these roads and high-rise buildings have been weathered and naturally look old. However, the United States is unwilling to spend money to rebuild and renovate these aging infrastructure, which naturally makes the appearance of American urban roads generally lag behind other developed countries, and it looks as old as a "big countryside" to outsiders.

However, Americans are unwilling to spend money on renovation.

As the saying goes, to get rich, you must first build roads, which is an eternal road. There are many benefits of infrastructure construction. It can not only improve the traffic environment, but also increase employment data and improve people's economic conditions. It is reflected in economic data and is an important manifestation of economic growth. Generally, there are three basic situations when a country builds infrastructure: the first situation is that industrialization has not started. For example, agricultural countries in Africa or tribal chiefdoms in primitive society do not need industrial production, let alone high-rise buildings or roads. They remain in the "small country with few people" situation of small peasant society, so naturally there is no demand for infrastructure. The second situation: post-industrial countries are countries that need to develop industry, such as Japan and South Korea now. The infrastructure is very mature. The third situation is countries with declining industrialization, such as the United States and Germany. These countries have already completed industrialization and infrastructure construction, but the characteristic is aging, like old houses need to be rebuilt or renovated. However, the benefits of infrastructure construction are not as good as those of high-tech industries and investment finance, which have better economic benefits and greater output.

Post-industrial countries, such as developing countries, need infrastructure to drive economic development, because vigorously building airports, high-speed railways, high-rise buildings, highways and other infrastructure, through the improvement of transportation, can reduce the economic exchange costs required for industrial development, and also drive employment, stimulate consumption, drive economic growth, and drive GDP growth, which is also a very satisfactory way of economic growth.

But in developed countries, the infrastructure is very complete, and further construction can drive demand in the short term. However, in the long run, infrastructure construction requires huge funds, but it is difficult to receive good marginal benefits. Finally, using taxes to fill the investment funds will eventually be heavily in debt, which will inevitably cause price increases and inflation, and the economy will shrink.

In microeconomics, this is also a kind of diminishing marginal benefits, and there may even be negative returns. To give a popular ratio, if a person is very hungry, he immediately spends money to eat a piece of bread, which feels very refreshing. But after eating the second and third, his stomach will burst. Not only can't eat, but eating too much is also harmful to health. It's better to use this money to buy drinks or fruits, which is more comfortable!

The United States also had a period of "infrastructure mania", that is, the Roosevelt New Deal in the 1930s, which promoted employment and economic growth through infrastructure. At that time, President Roosevelt's government spent as much as $18 billion on various infrastructure projects, employed millions of workers, and eventually built 78,000 bridges, 650,000 miles of roads, 700 miles of runways, 13,000 playgrounds, and 125,000 military and civilian buildings in the United States, including more than 4,000 schools.

Therefore, the infrastructure projects used in the United States now are all left over from the 1930s. The transportation systems commonly used by ordinary people in the United States are highways and aviation. The United States has the longest highway course in the world, with a total mileage of about 6.5 million kilometers. It is also the country with the most highways in the world, with 88,000 kilometers of highways, accounting for about half of the world's total highway mileage, connecting all towns with a population of more than 50,000, forming a highway network that runs vertically and horizontally across the country with a city coverage rate of more than 90%.

Therefore, the attitude of the United States towards infrastructure is that if it is not necessary, do not increase the entity. If the airport can be used, then use it; if the train and subway are acceptable, then just wait and see; as for rebuilding them, there is no need to spend the money.

The most important thing is that capital is not optimistic about this kind of behavior. After all, you can't make money by building roads. No, to be precise, it should be less profitable than other activities. For example, if the same amount of money is invested in the financial market, the income of others in one year can be much more than the income created by your infrastructure in 20 years!

This kind of investment is large, the actual income is small, but the scope of benefit is large, the market is not very interested, so infrastructure projects are basically done by the state. Because from the macro level of the country, it is profitable, and capital is not happy to see this situation.

The United States is unwilling to spend money on infrastructure construction, which is also a system problem. The United States is a democratic system and a federal system. There are a total of 50 states. The "small government" and local governments are highly autonomous. The leadership relationship between the upper and lower levels is not very strong, and there are frequent disputes between states in terms of interest relations. Moreover, the United States is also a country with separation of powers. The power of the president is subject to the constraints of Congress, and the Democratic and Republican parties participating in politics also restrict each other. For example, when a certain candidate was running for president, he proposed a $1 trillion infrastructure revitalization plan, but after taking office, this plan was not really implemented due to opposition from the Democratic Party. From this case, we can see that many infrastructure plans in the United States have been delayed due to differences between the two parties over the source of tribute.

Many examples also show that the Democratic Party of the United States advocates the use of more federal funds in infrastructure, and obtains funds by raising taxes and issuing bonds. The Republican Party advocates a generally accepted approach to encourage more private sector investment in infrastructure construction, thereby using lower costs to achieve good construction results, which also makes the two parties unyielding in infrastructure. In addition, it is often difficult for the states of the United States to maintain consistency with the federal government on infrastructure issues, and sometimes the states do not listen to the central government's orders. This also leads to a mess of infrastructure projects in the United States.

Another thing is... land is expensive!

Why don't you need land!

Where is this? It's New York, and every inch of land is worth a lot of money.

Since most of the land in the United States is privately owned, infrastructure projects need to communicate and negotiate with the landowners in the process of expropriating land before they can be carried out. It can be seen that it is bound to be labor-intensive and time-consuming. Why the infrastructure construction of the United States was able to proceed smoothly at the beginning of its founding was mainly because the population of the United States was small at that time, and the land basically belonged to the federal government. The government could let go of its hands and feet to build infrastructure and do whatever it wanted.

Is it okay now?

Labor in the United States is also relatively expensive. American workers strictly work according to the eight-hour workday. When the weather is too hot, rainy, snowy, etc., they can not work but can get wages. The high labor cost makes infrastructure construction more expensive. Moreover, the characteristics of the United States are that the land is vast and the population is sparse, and the houses are spacious. If infrastructure is built, a series of infrastructure is needed, and the funds spent are all unbearable for the US government.

So over the years, New York's infrastructure is still decades ago. After repairing and patching up until today, some places can no longer adapt to the needs of the new era.

This is also the reason for the poor traffic in New York.

Sage and his team want to get here in time unless there is no accident.

"I've always wanted to apply for a helicopter, but they wouldn't approve it. Who can I blame?"

Kai looked over with his eyes slanted: "Are you using me to make fun of me?"

Sage understood what he said, and wanted to get something good for his department again.

To be honest, the Special Division is the department with the most adequate budget in the entire New York Police Department. There's no way. Kai and Tony have always donated the most to the police department. Although Kai has never clearly stated which departments should be given priority for the money, the top police officers are not really stupid.

They naturally know what to do.

In the entire New York Police Department, the Special Division and the 15th Precinct have the most funding. There's no way. One of these two departments was established by Kai, and the other is Kai's old department.

Even if other departments have ideas, they have to hold them back. After all, if they don't make a fuss, some of the donations will be distributed to them, but once they make a fuss, Kai will stop donating directly, and then everyone will have nothing.

After all, donations are not grants, and the wishes of the donors are more important.

But even so, Saji was not satisfied. He kept applying for more and better things for the Special Department, which made the heads of other departments very angry. They were so rich, but they were still competing with them. It was too much.

But Saji didn't care about this. Even if I applied less, these bastards wouldn't thank him, so why not apply?

At least if I applied, I could get some.

At least the people in the department would be grateful to him.

In fact, any worker would like such a boss. The boss doesn't need you to be smart or wise. As long as you can bring benefits to the department, it doesn't matter if you are a fool. If you are wise and powerful, you will only let us work hard. There is no benefit, and we will be stabbed.

Saji is good like this, at least the people in the Special Department recognize him very much.

"Tsk... I'll ask after a while." Kai really didn't know what to say... because he was also such a person. For some things, no one would be grateful to you if you didn't fight for them. If you earn money, others may think you eat alone, but your own people will definitely be happy.

As long as my own people are happy, that's enough.

Others?

Why should I care about others?

"Thank you, big boss!"

Sage actually knows that his boss treats him well enough. Basically, he will not get nothing every time this happens, but then again, if there is wool to be plucked, why not pluck it? It's not that he took it away to eat and drink, so he has the right to pluck it.

What is a confidant? This is a confidant.

Do other people dare to talk in front of Kai? If you say it's too late, you can only admit your mistakes and apologize, but Sage doesn't. Not only does he find excuses, he also plucks a handful of wool in the opposite direction.

If the confidant is treated the same as others, this confidant is worse than not being one!

"Who is this?" After two full chapters, Sage remembered to ask the real business.

"Nick Fury." Kai said.

"Oh, Nick..." Sage didn't take it seriously at first, but the next second: "Who are you talking about?!!!"

"Nick Fury? What? Your English is not good enough?"

"It's not... him... this! It's Nick Fury?!!!"

Fuck, this is a white middle-aged white man with white hair, how can he be Nick Fury? Where is his one-eyed dragon? Where is his black skin? Where is his Madfake?

"He had plastic surgery, and it was quite successful. He is Nick Fury." Kai said casually.

Nick Fury raised his head and glanced at Sage. He knew Sage, Kai's little brother. He used to serve in a team with Kai, and later retired together and became a policeman together. Kai's die-hard little brother.

However, Nick Fury didn't have such a small person in his eyes before, so he knew them but had never met them.

"They were captured by your special department. This time you have made a great contribution." Kai said casually.

This credit is meaningless to Kai and Tony, especially to the children. It is easy for them to be targeted by others. It is better to share the credit with the special forces.

"What?!!"

"Jessica and Rorschach have found this guy. In this case, the credit belongs to you."

After saying that, Kai looked at Nick Fury: "I will hand you over to them, and then the government will take you. Is that okay? Hurry up."

Kai agreed to Nick Fury's request.

Nick Fury was not very nervous at this moment. After all, there were so many people here, and Kai also acknowledged his identity. If he wanted to kill him, Kai just didn't say it just now. There was no need to announce his identity.

Now that he has spoken out his identity, it means that Kai really doesn't intend to kill himself now.

After all, he died without knowing it, which is also a trouble for Kai.

Then Nick Fury confessed an address.