There ARE some “infrastructure” developments which add value and are potentially worth doing, but I agree that there is near zero chance that they are what he is talking about.
It is true, and I wish more here would accept it, that our average IQ workers need stuff to do, and that if they don’t have stuff to do, we are facing a bleak future on many fronts.
As improbable as it seems, tunneling I-93 under Boston was worth doing and employed lots of guys for a long time. If the government had the balls to do the necessary takings of large estates in Fairfield and Westchester Counties, a TGV line from Boston to NYC with only two angle turns (Providence and New London) would create value and employ lots of guys for a long time. I’m sure there are over useful things to do in other parts of the country - oil and gas come to mind, mining, improved fisheries, steel mills and processing, all could take OPM “investment” to grow and employ Americans.
I agree completely that the organized crime syndicate known as Congress is incapable of doing any of these things. But it’s nice to think about them.
“...tunneling I-93 under Boston was worth doing...”
Then Boston or Massachusetts should have paid for it.