Time to spend money on Infrastructure

[Flopper]

It sure would be pro-American and pro-business to invest monies in the country's infrastructure. It would provide jobs, not only with the infrastructure project, it would also create jobs in the business sector as the business sector becomes more competitive on the world stage.
Didn't Ike build the US interstate system for those very reasons?

Not at all. The interstate system was intended to provide maximum mobility for military materials in the event of war.

All the other benefits are secondary.

Unintended consequences?

Some people are just not honest.

Miltary use was only one justification. The primary reason was to eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way of “speedy, safe transcontinental travel.

 

[AmazonTania]

Not at all. The interstate system was intended to provide maximum mobility for military materials in the event of war.

All the other benefits are secondary.

Unintended consequences?

Some people are just not honest.

Miltary use was only one justification. The primary reason was to eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way of “speedy, safe transcontinental travel.

No, it wasn't. You just made that up.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Let's just say that the highways for many reasons. Only some of the reason was military.

You people act like we shouldn't have highways just to travel or move things from state to state.

 

[AmazonTania]

Let's just say that the highways for many reasons. Only some of the reason was military.

You people act like we shouldn't have highways just to travel or move things from state to state.

No one said that, but I generally have no choice in the decision to build highways.