America’s Infrastructure is Collapsing Right in Front of Our Eyes

June 13, 2023

by Michael Snyder The Economic Collapse Blog

America was once a country that built stuff. Previous generations of Americans constructed the greatest highways, bridges, railroads, ports, dams and water systems that anyone had ever seen. Magnificent new mega-cities were erected from coast to coast, and the rest of the world looked at us with envy. Ultimately, the keys to all of this infrastructure were handed down to us, and we have really messed things up. We don’t actually build much of anything these days. In fact, we can’t even maintain the infrastructure that we have been given. As a society we have become extremely lazy and extremely incompetent, and so the great civilization that our forefathers built for us is now crumbling right in front of our eyes.

The American Society of Civil Engineers gives America’s infrastructure a grade every few years, and the last time they issued a report we were given a C-…