Watch Your Step. You Might Have To Decide.

Where I live, the potholes are so bad that you can't even avoid them while walking. Okay, they're not quite that bad, but it does point out the seriousness of the problem. No I'm not talking about potholes. I'm talking about our infrastructure in general. Our country is crumbling from the inside out. And yet the government, both state and federal, seem unwilling or unable to do anything about it. It takes money to solve these kinds of problems and that's something our legislators, both at the state and federal level aren't willing to part with. To be fair, part of the problem is that we are already deeply in debt and there's the very real danger that we could default on some of that debt, and even if we don't default we could be downgraded from our AAA rating to something slightly less in our creditworthiness. If either happens, we're done for. On the other hand, if we ever hope to get back on track, we're going to need the overhaul of our roads and bridges and water supplies and power grids and sewers and everything else including education. There's no use looking back and wishing we had spent more or less on stimulus. We are where we are. What we do now will decide for a very long time where we will be. Either a third rate country or a leader. Not spending right now can easily push us down even deeper. Not spending now could save us.  You can hear both sides every minute of every day, thanks to 24 hour news TV. The one thing still remains a fact either way. We desperately need those upgrades in order to prosper. Maybe by doing the work, we'll put enough people back to work to solve the unemployment problem, which would go a long way toward solving our debt crisis.