In light of the recent devastating Amtrak train derailment, questions about the poor infrastructure in the United States have arisen. The American Society of Civil Engineers has given the nation’s infrastructure a grade in the range from D to D+ for the past five years. The nation spent 2% of our GDP on infrastructure in 2011, a number that has only been decreasing ever since (Tim Ryan, U.S. Representative). China and India, on the other hand, are countries with superior transportation systems having spent 11% of their GDP in 2011 on infrastructure. Congress is looking to cut Amtrak funding from $1.39 to $1.14 billion, with the Republicans arguing the impracticality of increasing infrastructure funding without decreasing funds elsewhere and the lack of information for the train crash. What do you think the government should do?
THE NEWS MAY BE FAKE BUT THE DEBATES ARE REAL