And it's not just bridges, it's also homes, schools, roads, and railroads. Basically while the older generations were in charge is was policy from local to federal level to build. It was policy to build plenty of homes, plenty of roads, airports, universities, even new cities. Then as soon as the Boomers ascended to political power, everything flipped: we suddenly ceased to build anything, and the only goal of government policy became to enrich the people who had already enormously benefitted from their parents' investments, while impoverishing the next generation. Taxes were cut. Budgets were cut.

Unfortunately the only way out of this mess is to extract wealth from those same Boomers, but as long as their stranglehold on political power remains - and let's face it, they are not even done ascending into power, considering that people like Feinstein, Biden, and Pelosi are even older than them - it won't happen. The nation will continue to fall to pieces.