A NEW COMPLEX

The bridge catastrophe in Minneapolis is the first but certainly not
the last infrastructure catastrophe America will experience
in the 21st Century.

How many more catastrophes like this one could be prevented by
spending the five hundred billion to one trillion dollars currently
being spent on our criminal military enterprise in Iraq on
repairing our crumbling infrastructure instead?

Before the next one, let's replace the military industrial complex
with an infrastructure rebuilding complex.

Now that's a complex we will have nothing
to be ashamed of.

Originally published in the Chicago Tribune, August 3, 2007