In the stampede to bring new infrastructure 'investment' programs onto the agenda of the incoming Obama Administration, Progressives are in the process of being seriously rolled by the Old Left, and some tragic public policy mistakes seem about to be made as a consequence. A chorus of calls for new "make work" spending on "Roads & Bridges" (led, behind the scenes, by the multinational Civil Engineering contractors who stand most to benefit), neglects obvioius facts of the 21st Century, as if this were the 1976 Transition that's upon us.
Cross posted from Blog for Our Future
(Below the fold: Psst!...Its the plumbing, stupid!...)