In the US we have taken advantage of all the great infrastructure systems of the past, thinking that it just happens like that while neglecting it for decades.

In the US we have taken advantage of all the great infrastructure systems of the past, thinking that it just happens like that while neglecting it for decades. We are like a friend that takes advantage while expecting it to just continue. It is almost like a company that gets too much funding, then builds off of a non reality thinking it just lasts forever. I wonder after all these wars when we will finally get back to infrastructure and projects like better roads, high speed rail, water projects like Hoover Dam, the interstate system, bridges/tunnels, and more. What are we going to do when we need drone infrastructure? What about high speed internet and fiber in a constant upgrading capacity? Is our solution to continually fall behind waiting for the market to be right? Why don't we have the same grand efforts to build an electric highway (highways with electric charging stations), or better high speed rail not 50 year old Amtrak trains, or that killer fiber network. These are quality of life improvements, that directly increase economic power for all, that we cannot get funding for but we can go to war. We need a War on Infrastructure Aging and somehow tie it to War on Terror funding or War on Drugs funding and scare people into doing it as that seems to be our modus operandi this millennia.