Big government advocates seek to substitute “infrastructure” for the
“s” (stimulus) word. President Obama’s State of the Union address called
for $40 billion to fix the nation’s roads and bridges and also called
for a federal infrastructure bank. On April 29, he called for an
additional $4 billion of infrastructure spending. $40 billion here and
$4 billion there, and soon you have some real money.
To convince a wary public to spend more with trillion dollar
deficits, big government advocates must gin up a national infrastructure
emergency that threatens safety, jobs, and well being. Public spending
lobbyists are ready to oblige with D+ report cards for “aging and
unreliable” roads, bridges, and ports. Big government advocates
substitute scare tactics for the facts that our infrastructure is as
good as Europe’s and that we spend more than the European Union on
public investment. If we spend as much or more and have inferior
infrastructure that is a political failure of untold proportions for
which someone should pay.
go to forbes.com
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