And wouldn't you know, it's the President and not someone in the other political party:
Obama Pushes Plan to Build Roads and Bridges
By PETER BAKER and JOHN SCHWARTZ
Declaring, "Let's get started rebuilding America," President Obama promoted a merger of tax breaks, loans and private investment to generate money for projects.This is long, long overdue, even if we all ignored this recent report:
The latest national report card issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers this month on the state of bridges, roads, power grids, rail networks and other systems showed that the country’s grade had actually risen for the first time — but to a D-plus from a D. I've been writing on this for some time, both here and on our Missouri Senator's home Facebook pages, in an effort to get some money for widening, improving and updating Interstate 70 from East Missouri and St. Louis, all the way across the state to Kansas City and the Kansas border. It needs it badly, it's unsafe, it's narrow, it would be good for families and personal travel as well as business and business travel. It would create jobs for the region. There's just everything good about it and we need it sorely, as I said. So, now, we wait. We wait for the Republicans to come out against it. Well, hey, it was proposed by this President, wasn't it? WHAT DO WE WANT?? JOBS!! WHEN DO WE WANT THEM?? 4 YEARS AGO!! Senator McCaskill? Senator Blunt?