Last night on the NBC evening news they punched down a list of things needing future attention by our future president; schools, Medicare, infrastructure (roads and bridges)...
I stop there. Implied in their verbal mentioning of infrastructure as "roads and bridges" is that infrastructure is only roads and bridges. This is exactly what I might expect to hear from an autocentric nation hell bent on creating a fully paved over automobile slum.
What about agricultural drainage ditches, transmission power lines, flood control dikes and levees, phone networks, train stations, tidal breakwaters, municipal solid waste dumps, wiers, moles, berms, cast iron sewer pipes, fiber optic SONET rings, rainwater sump pumps, natural gas regasification terminals, wastewater treatment plants, airports, greenbelts, communication satellites, water canals, parks, jettys, water treatment plants, and earthen dams?
No, take away even one mile of roadway and this precious exceptional nation of ours would shut down, couldn't function...
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