> but postwar US built the most advanced highway infrastructure, hoover dam, landed on the moon. The interstate system could be seen as a boondoggle to make a

> but postwar US built the most advanced highway infrastructure, hoover dam, landed on the moon. The interstate system could be seen as a boondoggle to make automakers rich at the expense of the US having a modern rail network. Without question the moon landing and the Hoover Dam were historic engineering feats but they were both products of their eras. The Hoover Dam was a prewar Great Depression jobs effort and the moon landing would never have been possible but for the Cold War.