AH MARCH 2024
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The world is literally
falling apart
n August 2007, the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis just fell
down. The collapse killed 13 people and injured nearly 150, and the nation, still
jumpy from the 9/11 attacks, immediately wondered if it was another terror
attack.
But no, this wound was self-inflicted.
The bridge, opened in 1967, simply failed because a thin “gusset plate” connecting
two beams ripped. Officially, that was determined to be a design flaw, but the age
of the bridge highlighted the need for a national infrastructure replacement and
upgrade plan.
At that time I was an editor for a magazine focused on city and county
governments, so for months afterward I was doing stories on the status of the
nation’s roads, bridges, electricity grid, water system and other structures that are
simply vital to everyone in this country.
Long story short, we reported that much of the infrastructure in the U.S.
was outdated, shockingly so in many cases. Still, Congress struggled for
another decade and a half to pass a bill to fund the necessary work. When the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021 it was welcome news for those
of us who shift nervously in our cars every time we’re stuck on a bridge in
rush hour traffic.
But this month’s cover story is about more than that. The idea that hotels
are pulling business from projects funded by the BIL is why it’s also called the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and that has far reaching implications.
One reason it took so long to pass such obviously necessary legislation is because
some people in government equate “government spending” with “government
waste.” I’ve heard the comparison that some people act like when the government
spend money they’re just throwing it into a hole in the ground, but that’s not the
case.
Public money spent flows back into the private sector. Those work crews staying
at your hotels and the companies that employ are proof of that. This should not be
construed as saying that government waste doesn’t exist, but Congress needs to
get over the sticker shock of some spending bills and just concentrate on how that
money makes it’s way back into the hands and bank accounts of taxpayers.
Circle of life, people!
Edward J. Brock, Senior Editor
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