Rebuilding and
Repairing America’s Neglected Infrastructure
by Arthur L. Finkle | Jun 17,
2021
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The American Society of Civil Engineers 2016 economic study (Failure to
Act: Closing the Infrastructure Investment Gap for America’s Economic Future)
predicted that America’s infrastructure investment gap was $3.9 trillion in
losses to the U.S. GDP by 2025. Further, it found a gap of $7 trillion in lost
business sales by 2025. Moreover, it predicted that, due to this infrastructure
gap, lost American jobs in 2025 would total 2.5 million. On top of those costs,
hardworking American families will lose upwards of $3,400 in disposable income
each year – about $9 each day. Infrastructure includes government projects
(highways, airports, ports, water systems, sewer system, Mass transit, etc.).
Private infrastructure (electric grid, internet) is also severely underfunded
and generally unregulated.
Civic Virtue:
Making America American
by Arthur L. Finkle | Jun 17,
2021
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Extremism, racism, nativism, and
isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of
economic and social stress—a period like our own. Americans today have little
trust in government, household incomes lag behind our usual middle-class
expectations. The fires of fear in America have long found oxygen when broad,
seemingly threatening change is afoot.
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