I'm not a classicist (Public Board)
The American Empire as we know it is dying and it should because of the greed and corruption from the top down, not to mention the moral degeneracy of our government. They want to destroy our country and have no interest in fixing any of our problems. They just take our tax dollars and do whatever they want with it. That money should be clawed back because they didn't use it.
This article basically says the government allocated $7.5B for 500,000 EV chargers across the nation, yet we only built 8 in 2.5 years! This really shines a light on how incompetent our government is at handling any kind of project. There is so much waste and incompetence in government, if we ever focused just on that one issue we could reduce the national debt by a good amount. Our federal government is a complete clusterfruck.
https://reason.com/2024/05/30/7-5-billion-in-government-cash-only-built-8-e-v-chargers-in-2-5-years/