You have some good points but one thing is for sure, less money means less and less ability to do a good job. This attitude also makes it when we do something l

You have some good points but one thing is for sure, less money means less and less ability to do a good job. This attitude also makes it when we do something like that, people are very critical and hoping for it to fail rather than helping to fix it, further exacerbating the problem. We have groups of people that want anything that benefits all to fail, and can't wait until they do. Looking back, even when they did large projects in the past there were companies involved that did most of the projects. The government just funds it across all because it is beneficial to many or all and it may not be a market investment now but will be long term. Many people got rich determining where the roads, rails and projects got made and fortunes were made. That is when people started caring, many projects in when there were economic benefits. We also built up after WWI/WWII because the entire world was in ruin and we had an opportunity to get far ahead. I am convinced that if that happened today, with our extreme views, that we would have just not built up after those wars and we would be living in a much different place, with much less business and economic opportunity. Rarely does a big project like this cause economic issues other than the initial cost but the long term it adds many times more worth. We now have some of the worst rickety infrastructure and we still aren't doing anything now so why would we have then with this outlook. We use public fees and funds to build stadiums but not much else. I'd be fine with us giving Tesla or Elon Musk funds to make the US have electric highways. Maybe even giving Google and others funds to build the fiber network that will always be upgradeable and on a schedule. But that is the flipside, lots of people wouldn't be fine with that without some oversight, America is a big team that isn't playing for the better of the whole team but tribes within it. It seems to be just black or white to most people when these things take time to get right. We are like working at an office with a really demoralized team, so why do anything for the team at all then right? We have forgotten how to build and fund things for the common good that elevates everyone's quality of life and provides a better platform for business and economic development. That American attitude of betterment for all and strong base was left in the former century.