[Seizethecarp]

“While infrastructure improvements have been neglected on a federal level for decades, Chicago is making one of the nation’s largest coordinated investments, putting 30,000 residents to work over the next three years improving our roads, rails and runways; repairing our aged water system; and increasing access to gigabit-speed broadband.”

Last time I looked, Chicago and Illinois were broke and driving business into nearby states and other countries, not to mention that “murder capital” business...

[fhayek]

My main problem with all of this ‘investment in infrastructure’ is that the people who want to spearhead it are the same people who were supposed to be in charge of maintaining the infrastructure all along. We as taxpayers, ostensibly have been paying taxes to keep the roads, bridges and aged water systems in good repair. These dolts, especially those in liberal bastions, siphon off the lions share of these tax revenues in order to fund liberal policies. Now, after decades of mis-management of these assets, they are throwing the responsibilty for renewing the infrastructure back at the feet of taxpayers, both current and future. And all in the name of jobs. I just can’t stand to see them get away with it.