Over the past couple decades or so it seems that politicians have made a big deal of re-amping up america's infrastructure, but with little to no real life action amongst those words spouted seemingly by our elected officials. Everyday it becomes more and more apparent that the infrastructure that is holding up this country is cracking and has been cracking for the past couple of decades. The roads, bridges, interstates, and other vital traffic ways need to be addressed at the very least as they have not been worked on in the way they need to in decades. The longer people and politicians wait to tackle this growing problem the more it will cost everyone at the end of the day. Our politicians need to step up funding over the next decades to fix our infrastructure or soon America will fall behind the rest of the civilized world once again. If we don’t see action soon you can expect to find more stories of roadways and other vital infrastructure failing.
You would think that a president elected with this failing infrastructure would at least make a plan to solve this problem or at the least make a statement regarding it. Well you would think right as the current president Donald Trump has made plans to “fix this country's failing infrastructure.” Then again you wouldn't be 100% right as Presidents Trump’s “grand plan” for the infrastructure re-amping is to build a wall on the border of the United States and Mexico. Instead of focusing on collapsing bridges the Trump administration and a good portion of congress want to alienate one of our oldest allies and trading partners. The most questionable part of this whole transaction is that a good amount of funding will be pulled from gov’t funding. Funding that helps people become more educated and better off versed in the arts.
While I applaud the Trump administration for at the very least admitting that there is a problem that the majority of the world is aware of, I am strongly confused and disappointed in the direction this administration has taken in “fixing “ the country's infrastructure. Reallocating funds from the arts and building symbolic wall for the rest of the world to see isn’t what we as country need or really even want. The whole of Government needs to stop trying to push agendas on the people and needs to start fixing its own problems already set in place with the biggest being the infrastructure.
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I agree that there are definitely issues that our government, and ourselves, are keeping at an arm's length. I would argue that technically our infrastructure isn't quite falling yet, more like treading water with some show of learning how to doggy paddle. The #MAGA crowd was spot on that we have issues as a country, but for all the wrong reasons and all the wrong issues that just made them look incredibly ignorant. Now that we have Trump in office like you said, there is still no show of actually moving forward. In fact, it appears we are now moving backward (or drowning if we are keeping the pool analogy).
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