The opening point of discussion was the 65,000 unrepaired bridges in the Unites States. Someone pointed out that such repairs would provide jobs and use materials, all from the United States.
Unfortunately, Congress stole most of the money with federal bailouts and credit-card wars. Bridges are just the beginning of the iceberg. We should start a deficiency list: road paving, sewer and water, electrical power generation, school facilities, storm shelters, parks.
We should start another list for stuff that is broken other than infrastructure: I'm afraid to get this list started, tomorrow is Halloween and I don't want to deal with anything too scary....
This discussion is continued in Infrastructure and Unemployment 2.
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