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[quote user="henry6"]And Bucyrus, are you saying that if something doesn't make a financial profit, it shouldn't be done? [/quote]   More or less, but profit is not the issue.  The issue is whether the users will pay for the project, or whether the cost will be spread out to people who have no need for the project.  The profit component is just the necessary indicator that someone in the private sector has recognized that there was enough need by people willing to pay to have their need satisfied.   <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> I use the criteria of whether or not some endeavor will provide a profit if it is done as being the qualification of whether the endeavor is needed.  In other words, if the people who want to use the bridge are not sufficient in number or unwilling to pay for the bridge through their use, then the bridge is not worth building.   <o:p></o:p> Anybody can make the argument that their want is shared by others, and therefore it should rise to the level of a societal need that must be fulfilled.  But under that criteria, there is no limit to the societal needs, and yet there are limits to society’s funds.
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