Hooray For The Infrastructure Bill!

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​HOORAY FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL!

     I don't know if everyone else in the U.S. is as happy as I am about the infrastructure bill that was signed - finally! - on Monday by President Biden.
​       Looks like everybody who was at the signing was pretty happy about it.

   Though I honestly doubt that more than a few of those folks in the photo op have ever lain awake at night worrying about infrastructure the way I have. 
     Well, all right, the truth is that I am an inveterate insomniac and when I'm lying awake at night for hours on end I end up worrying about all kinds of things, mostly just to kill time. But the fact is, infrastructure is a worthy subject for worry. 
      I mean, just knowing that any one of us could be driving over a dilapidated bridge at the moment it finally gives up the ghost or on a pot-hole-ridded roadway when it cracks open into a yawning sink-hole beneath us...And how far off is the moment when our frazzled electric grid finally fizzles and all life as we know it goes down like the Titanic?
      Really, when it comes to infrastructure in this country, what's not to stay awake at night worrying  about?
      And that's not even counting the national shame we should have over the state of some of our international airports. The last time I returned from Spain via the Philadelphia airport the international arrival area was so run-down and dirty that I wanted to shrink from mortification  at the thought of all the foreign travelers whose first glimpse of our country was this disreputable corridor. Especially since I'd just come from the ultra-modern, ultra-passenger-friendly Madrid airport.

     (Me in 2015 fiddling with my hiking boot in the Madrid airport).

      In fact, if there was one issue that I fully agreed with Donald Trump on it was that the airports of many of our foreign neighbors put our airports to shame.  And after Trump  was elected President, I honestly did hope that he would at least do what he promised to do in his uncharacteristically harmonious victory speech: "rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports...rebuild our infrastructure...and put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it."
​      Of course as it turned out with Trump the harmony didn't last beyond the victory speech and, as we all know, the highways, bridges, tunnels and airports continued to crumble for four more years.
       But that period of our nation's history is, thankfully, over, and now, finally, finally, our national infrastructure will soon be on the mend, with the allocation of money for projects expected to begin within six months.    

      And so, while there's still plenty enough worries for us insomniacs of the world to fill our sleepless hours, we Americans can all at least put our anxiety and shame over our deteriorating infrastructure to rest.

Reference
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/09/politics/biden-infrastructure-bill-spending-economy/index.html