Hacker News Reader

> it's where you guys spend it all.

http://www.businessinsider.com/gross-fixed-investment-2013-8 . Infrastructure-schmustructure, none of these guys can afford a program like F-35!

If only we had a transit-industrial complex instead

We do. Look at the cost of the WTC PATH Station.

We need to invent some defense-related shibboleth that would build us some infrastructure. It worked for the interstate highway system...