I'm using the word "invest" in a pretty broad sense. I would consider, e.g. fixing the USA's disastrously undermaintained waterways, bridges, railroads, electri

I'm using the word "invest" in a pretty broad sense. I would consider, e.g. fixing the USA's disastrously undermaintained waterways, bridges, railroads, electrical grids, schools, etc. to be "investments" (and probably wiser investments than whatever it invested in instead)