Wake Up, Congress: Create Jobs, Fix Our Crumbling Infrastructure

Commentary
By John A. Ostenburg
The Outpost Observer

It wasn’t that many years ago that “infrastructure” wasn’t a part of our everyday vocabulary.

As the nation grew, government put more and more money into roads, bridges, water and sewer lines, school buildings, parks, and other public facilities. The need was there, and so funds were appropriated to meet that need. Citizens just took it for granted that government would continue this course long into the…