"It Starts at Home"
It's been rather hard to keep track, but it would appear that the US has spent more to support the seemingly failed Ukrainian war effort than it has spent on domestic infrastructure in any fiscal year between 2012 and 2019 (1) (2) (3) (4).
The roughly 113-121 billion dollars in budget and military aid sent to Ukraine totals more than any annual rail, road, air or water infrastructure spending by the Federal government for a nearly 8 year period.
42% of America's bridges are over 50 years of age and 46,154 of them are structurally deficient.
Tens of milions of Americans, including in major cities such as Houston, Texas are living with undrinkable water they must boil in order to utilize.
The American powergrid is in such a dilapidated state that the National Infrastructure Advisory Council has now begun to point out it poses a national security risk due to increasing failures and unreliability.
Closer to the dinner table, the US has now ended it's pandemic era school lunch assistance programs, resulting in millions of families facing the prospect of losing the incredible relief a free or subsidized school lunch can provide their children and strained budgets.
Americans must drive on unsafe bridges, utilize an unreliable powergrid and make material sacrifices for an ill-advised war effort which has only brought ceaseless hardship for all those involved.
It's been rather hard to keep track, but it would appear that the US has spent more to support the seemingly failed Ukrainian war effort than it has spent on domestic infrastructure in any fiscal year between 2012 and 2019 (1) (2) (3) (4).
The roughly 113-121 billion dollars in budget and military aid sent to Ukraine totals more than any annual rail, road, air or water infrastructure spending by the Federal government for a nearly 8 year period.
42% of America's bridges are over 50 years of age and 46,154 of them are structurally deficient.
Tens of milions of Americans, including in major cities such as Houston, Texas are living with undrinkable water they must boil in order to utilize.
The American powergrid is in such a dilapidated state that the National Infrastructure Advisory Council has now begun to point out it poses a national security risk due to increasing failures and unreliability.
Closer to the dinner table, the US has now ended it's pandemic era school lunch assistance programs, resulting in millions of families facing the prospect of losing the incredible relief a free or subsidized school lunch can provide their children and strained budgets.
Americans must drive on unsafe bridges, utilize an unreliable powergrid and make material sacrifices for an ill-advised war effort which has only brought ceaseless hardship for all those involved.