U.S. Infrastructure Deteriorating, Report Finds

This is infuriating. The fact is, we do need to overhaul our infrastructure. But this news story has a partisan slant. They only bothered to get one guy's opinion, who happened to be a democrat. He thinks it's because of the tax cuts. What the story fails to report is that in 1998 the asce gave a similar report. The grade they gave back then...(drumroll please)... a D!!!
Some things have gotten better, such as education. Some have gotten worse, such as bridges. But overall, we still get a D from the asce. What conclusions can we draw? First, our infrastructure sucks, and has sucked for a while. Second, this is not the president's fault, as the news story would imply. It is obviously the fault of our entire political culture for the past several years. This is just a case of journalists creating a partisan attack piece out of a relatively non-partisan issue. The obvious solution to any liberal would be to repeal the tax cuts. But the tax cuts didn't create the problem. Perhaps, they should re-allocate some of their spending to cover infrastructure costs. Cut some of the grant money they give to study the mating rituals of the pissant, or something. Or cut some of the money we send to Colombia to grow, I mean fight narcotics. Or start some Adopt-a-Dam program to get the private sector involved. I guess my point is, if you guys weren't doing any better with the extra money, then the solution isn't to give it back.

Here's the ASCE's 1998 report card
http://www.pubs.asce.org/news/sep5.html