Tonight the first 15 minutes of All Things Considered was about our crumbling infrastructure, our unwillingness to pay for fixing/expanding it and the economic absurdity of this choice.

I sort of feel like our society maxed out its credit cards for a week in Cancun, is now back home and hung over and has decided that since we’ve learned that borrowing is bad for us, we shouldn’t apply for student loans and will skip college instead…

Listen to the first two stories…