<story><title>Nine governors press U.S. lawmakers to pass semiconductor funding bill</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nine-governors-press-us-lawmakers-pass-semiconductor-funding-bill-2021-11-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Server6</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why people are so opposed to pork spending? Pork is how things got done historically. Sure on the surface it&amp;#x27;s wasteful, but it promotes compromise and greases the wheels of government. None of the great works in the US would have been completed without it. Pork reform in my opinion is one of the reasons why things are so partisan these days - everyone is in their own corner and there&amp;#x27;s no incentive for Democrats to help Republicans and vice versa.</text></item><item><author>malchow</author><text>This is a pork bill from Intel, which used to know how to build competitive fabs and now does not.&lt;p&gt;Federal pork will not make our country better at semi autolines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaygh</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t even need those sorts of justifications, because &lt;i&gt;government investment&lt;/i&gt; is historically how things got built.&lt;p&gt;The Great American Giant (Intel) could never have existed without massive R&amp;amp;D spend in the post-war period, not to mention the fact that it more recently had its ass completely whipped by a government-funded company (the aptly-named Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited).&lt;p&gt;But, anyways, the answer to your question is: because government ==== bad.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nine governors press U.S. lawmakers to pass semiconductor funding bill</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nine-governors-press-us-lawmakers-pass-semiconductor-funding-bill-2021-11-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Server6</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why people are so opposed to pork spending? Pork is how things got done historically. Sure on the surface it&amp;#x27;s wasteful, but it promotes compromise and greases the wheels of government. None of the great works in the US would have been completed without it. Pork reform in my opinion is one of the reasons why things are so partisan these days - everyone is in their own corner and there&amp;#x27;s no incentive for Democrats to help Republicans and vice versa.</text></item><item><author>malchow</author><text>This is a pork bill from Intel, which used to know how to build competitive fabs and now does not.&lt;p&gt;Federal pork will not make our country better at semi autolines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>Intel signed an agreement with Hillsboro, Oregon to pay zero taxes for 30 years. It&amp;#x27;s a little crass for them to go hat-in-hand to the federal government.</text></comment>