Perhaps if we had not had to fund a couple of expensive, and in at least one case illegal, wars, perhaps we could have had sufficient funds to maintain our nations infrastructure:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/hurricane-irene-infrastructure-damage_n_941196.html
And if we had paid attention to Nobel Economist Paul Krugman and doubled the amount of the stimulus, spending most all of it on infrastructure projects, perhaps a few more people wouldn't be sitting in the dark, or be stranded somewhere due to a bridge being washed away or maybe even a few less families morning the loss of a loved one.
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