with the requirement that every so many miles the highway had to be
capable of being a landing field for airplanes.

A great legend, much and well debunked over time, especially in
alt.urban.folklore and at snopes, a tale which sounds good but is not really
true, among other reasons because all them power poles and lines get in the
way and barrow ditches are just not right for a/c (nor or the roadway
underpinnings in all cases really stressed for the "big thumps" of landing
heavy a/c).

nor really? But a little bit? Or maybe amongst the thousands of miles
there ARE some?

Get your facts straight before launching your anti-capitolism rants.

How about arguing the other points?

Its too easy to pacify your bad conscious by finding a single weak
point

US-americans have been propagandises so much, they don't even
recognise it anymore. You are perfectly adapted to hold two opposing
concepts in your brains:

example:

socialism is bad for people

"Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system
of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial
civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as
legitimate, even praiseworthy, on the grounds that private vices yield
public benefits, in the classic formulation. Now, it has long been
understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principle
will destroy itself in time. It can only persist, with whatever
suffering and injustice that it entails, as long as it is possible to
pretend that the destructive forces that humans create are limited,
that the world is an infinite resource, and that the world is an
infinite garbage can. At this stage of history either one of two things
is possible. Either the general population will take control of its own
destiny and will concern itself with community interests, guided by
values of solidarity, sympathy and concern for others, or alternatively
there will be no destiny for anyone to control. As long as some
specialized class is in a position of authority, it is going to set
policy in the special interests that it serves. But the conditions of
survival, let alone justice, require rational social planning in the
interests of the community as a whole, and by now that means the global
community. The question is whether privileged elite should dominate
mass communication and should use this power as they tell us they must
-- namely to impose necessary illusions, to manipulate and deceive the
stupid majority and remove them from the public arena. The question in
brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or
threats to be avoided. In this possibly terminal phase of human
existence, democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured;
they may well be essential to survival."