FICTION:
Que up the falling bridges! The infrastructure in the United States is falling down from old age. Nobody is to blame. It is just too old. Please give us more money. Everyone needs to open up their wallets much wider this time.
FACT:
Our infrastructure is actually failing from day-one defects and subsequent damage. Until public works officials correctly attribute the failures to day-one defects and subsequent damage, there will be no changes in behavior. The same problems will continue, and the taxpayers will continue to pay the consequences of it.