America needs $1.6 trillion investment in infrastructure to avoid widespread catastrophic structural failures.

Afghanistan to receive american taxpayer money indefinitely.....military bases in afghanistan are more important.........from new american.com......

"Phrases such as "renew our resolve" and "stay the course" are again tripping off the lips of politicians and their pundit supporters, even though precisely what we are to be resolved to do and what course we are to stay on is never clearly defined and can be counted on to continue morphing in Afghanistan, as well as in Iraq.

Secretary Clinton's and Foreign Minister Rudd's statements, along with other similar comments by administration officials, indicate that the Obama administration remains committed to the unending and ever-changing "nation-building" intervention policies of the Bush administration. Those policies include a continuing massive infrastructure development program in Afghanistan: roads, highways, bridges, water treatment plants, mosques, schools — and military bases.

Of course, as headlines daily remind us, the United States is already broke and drowning in an ocean of debt. And we have our own infrastructure crisis to worry about. In 2005, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) issued a report entitled The Infrastructure Crisis, in which they estimated that America's roads, bridges, etc. required an investment of $1.6 trillion to avoid widespread catastrophic structural failures"...............read more here