Best Use of Our Money????????

Dear Editor:

Let me see if I get this straight. A report by the American Society of Civil Engineers (non-political) says that crowding schools, traffic-chocked roads and transit cutbacks are eroding the quality of American life. The report said $1.6 trillion should be spent over the next five years to alleviate potential problems with the nation’s infrastructure. Are we going to spend that? Of course not.

Our money is going to be spent by going deeper into deficit by giving permanent status to the president’s tax cut for the rich, rebuilding the infrastructure of Iraq and fighting an insurgency that his pre-emptive war caused there (at a cost of a billion a week), and setting up his overwhelming costly privatization of social security. Those two items alone would more than pay for alleviating our infrastructure problems over the next five years. I thought charity begins at home.