There’s a scene in the old Tom Hanks/Shelley Long movie, “The Money Pit” that relates to the status of America’s infrastructure.
The Hanks character has called a plumber to fix the piping of the stately but decrepit home he and his wife have bought. The plumber gives an estimate (outrageous) without so much as going into the basement. Hanks asks if the plumber is even going to look at the pipes. The crusty old tradesman replies, “I looked at them five years ago. Do you figure they’ve improved with age?”
It turns out that as a nation we are treating our plumbing
