Excellent OpEd Piece in the Times Today

There was an excellent opinion piece in today's NY Times by Adam Cohen (click here for the whole piece) about how government needs to remember its responsibilities on the non-glamorous subject of public works. Here's an excerpt:

The nation is unlikely to embark on public works programs like those launched during the Great Depression, unless there is another economic crisis of that scale. But Roosevelt’s basic idea — that the government should employ idle hands to upgrade the nation — should never have gone out of fashion. The next president will need to confront the nation’s disrepair. It should be an issue in the campaign right now.

I think this is an excellent point. Why are we so eager to spend billions on the military, while our infrastructure crumbles? The country as a whole would be much better served if some of those billions went toward fixing the things that most people use every day.