The collapse into the Mississippi River of a Minneapolis bridge during heavy rush hour traffic is a fitting metaphor for the danger and insecurity that American government places its citizens in by failing to invest in infrastructure and improve aging structural elements of the nation's transportation, energy, and public utilities systems.
What is more mundane than driving home from work? What is more extraordinary than literally falling off a road because the government has failed to make the needed investments and improvements to aging national infrastructure?
Another failure of government to provide for the basic needs of its citizenry.
