Overheard

• Light rail is not profitable.
• High speed rail is not profitable.
• Bridges are not profitable.
• Street lights are not profitable.
• Public schools are not profitable.
• Traffic tunnels are not profitable.
• The US Military is not profitable.
• Cops and firefighters aren't profitable.

Good government is not, in and of itself, profitable - it's not supposed to be.

Good government promotes profitability fairly and equitably for as many as possible.

When government is directly profitable for somebody, we call it Plutocracy.

And that's bad.