Redirecting national priorities to infrastructure

Did you know that according to the American Society of Civil Engineers the estimated cost of repairing America's surface infrastructure would require an investment of $1.7 trillion dollars by 2020?  Ironically that is the same amount the US Department of Defense spent on direct costs of overseas interventions since 2001, including debt services.  I discovered this reading Mike Lofgren's book, "The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted."

Watching a show on PBS, A Journey to America's Smelly Depths to Confront Our Aging Water Systems, I learned that we have a huge amount of differed maintenance when it comes to our nation's water and sewer systems. It is so bad that the American Society of Civil Engineers rates them with a D-minus.

It is past time we begin redirecting our tax dollars from wars overseas to our aging domestic infrastructure.