I may not have been clear in my original post. I wasn't trying to say that this infrastructure money would be well spent -- but that to the extent that it was useless and wasteful, it was useless and wasteful HERE in the U.S.
I don't like to see a penny of public money spent on anything that isn't needed. But building useless roads, bridges and water infrastructure here in the U.S. for exorbitant sums of money is far better for Americans than building all this same sh!t in Iraq, wouldn't you say?
I agree, but building things only to have them fall apart because of a lack of maintenance is still a waste. That is why I would favor an infrastructure maintenance set of expenditures, but not capital expenditures.