All the hubbub over the inadequate direction over the city's growth came to the front (again) this week as the city ponders how on earth it's ever going to build a transportation system that works.

I've thought it's the result of poor planning, but this blog makes the case that it's not the planning. Americans are great planners. The case, and it is convincing, is that three decades of conservative rule have made a shambles of the planning process by systematically crippling or defeating implementing a plan.

Here's a quote:

"America's legendary facility with foresight and planning has all but vanished under 30 years of conservative rule. From the very beginning, we've been some of the biggest dreamers and most effective planners the world has ever seen. For better or worse, we settled up a continent, crossed it with railroads and interstates, dammed the West, dominated the skies, got water and power and phone lines into the most remote towns, fought a war in two theaters, and put men on the moon. Say what you will about the consequences of these endeavors; but they are not the achievements of a people who were afraid to look far ahead and imagine big things, who were unable to see all the possibilities, or who were ineffective at bringing those dreams into reality."

Do conservatives hate government so much that they will kill good governance, too? What say you?