Rural People(I am one of them) don't want government help on the surface. But the don't stop and think of how their lives are subsidized. They just take it for granted.
Roads are just one issue. Schools are another. There is not enough taxpayers in our little county of PA, where cows outnumber people to build huge schools... yet we have them. The county next to ours is putting in a huge geothermal system.
Power lines that go one forever... High speed internet... all are subsidized by our government. It costs more to run the lines and maintain them than is worth the revenue from the billing. So the state and federal government subsidizes the cost of doing so.
Does that mean I think that us Country folk are selfish... no. Just blissfully unaware. The only thing that we do have out our way that is not subsidized are our Free water and sewage... we have wells and septic systems. Everything else is more expensive for the companies than it is in the city, where everyone is grouped together.
Do I want to live in the city? Hell no. I like grass beneath my feet and my view of Jack's Mountain. I like not having to lock my doors. I like to hunt and fish. I don't mind my 1/2 hour commute to work(which is relatively short compared to most people who live in the country), even though it costs more to get back and forth.
Roads are a necessary function of Government (See article 1, Section 8). Schools are also necessary. Power lines and Internet are very poor excuses. And as to power lines? Why is electricity so darned expensive? Energy, mining for it, and what is government doing to us right now? Blocking producing any more of it, or rather what we have been accustomed to. Instead? They're pushing untried, unproven 'Green' tech, and it's on purpose to alter our behaviour, our lifestyles...some call it
control.
I do NOT accept what is going on here, and will fight tooth and nail to get them out of my life, that of my friends, family, and fellow countrymen.
You may have bought into the excuses government gives you. Most of us have not.