>This is the reason I am not at all concermed about running up the federal deficit to fix infrastructure. We can put future generations in debt by taking out loans, or we can do it by sticking them with a massive repair bill.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. -Not me

Everyone knows quality investment in the future always works. Especially in infrastructure. Building a new bridge across the detroit river will pay for itself. The caveat with your position is that you cannot indebt a future generation with bad debt. Only 5% of that infrastructure bill is really 'planting trees' but rather instead a bunch of ideological vote buying.