Infrastructure Lessons from Venice

[fredtoast]

Since most people just use roads and bridges for personal travel they do not see our transportation system as a huge part of our business and industry base. But if you look at every single item in your house, from the smallest toothpick to your family car, the natural resources used to make that item were shipped to a factory and then the finished product was shipped to a point of sale. If we can make transportation quicker, cheaper, and cleaner, we will boost our Gross Domestic Product. Spending on infrastructure is not just a "public service" provided by the government. It is an investment in increasing the entire nations productivity.

A quarter of our country does not have broad band access. Imagine the disadvantage businesses in those areas suffer.