Chief Prognosticator

Why Can’t We Focus on Infrastructure?

What makes the subject of investing on U.S. Infrastructure such a boring thing for politicians to do? I mean, investing U.S. dollars in U.S. equipment and U.S. structures using U.S. labor just makes sense. We need new roads, new dams, new power plants, and new railroad lines. Why can’t the might U.S. Government take their trillions and trillions of dollar federal budget and put it to some good use?

I only see a few drawbacks to such wide scale actions. The first would be a rise in material prices. Raw materials like steel and concrete are in high demand right now thanks to Dubai and China going “Infrastructure-wild”, but if the U.S. got involved, prices would go even higher.  Second might be failure due to lack of people willing to fill these jobs or skilled labor to perform them. You’ve all seen how long it takes to build a road… imagine if there were millions of more projects to accomplish.

But I think these downsides are nothing compared to the potential upside. Come on Obama and McCain — push this agenda.