Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 5:27 PM by Gene

TECH CENTRAL STATION offers ANOTHER BOLD SOLUTION:

This is perhaps the most revealing way to think about the country's endangered infrastructure: what would be needed to make it adequate is a Pentagon-size budget spent annually for the next five years. Obviously, nothing even remotely close is going to happen but if there ever was a case for governments, industries and academics coming together and developing a set of rational priorities this is it. There will never be enough money to fix everything and to erase the entire backlog and hence any rational, long-term program of effective investment should be guided by carefully defined priorities (designed, above all, to strengthen national security and to reduce user risks) rather than by dubious congressional deals and by competing, piecemeal interventions. The enormity of the problem calls for a grand strategy: I wish I could say that there will be no shortage of bold initiatives to bring it about.

I guess DOW 36,000 realizes THE BLESSED MARKETPLACE won't help, but what WILL? When he hasn't a clue you can be sure he's clueless on lots of other things.