Bonnie - I wish you were right about the infrastructure being addressed. But I doubt it. Louisiana time & again tried to get funds to shore up their infrastructure, and time & again were turned down. New Yrk City's infrastructure is in dire need of repairs, as are most cities'. There are only so many resources, and not enough to address all the needs so unfortunately priorities must be set. And what one thinks is a priority someone else may not. I am afraid that this then leads to conflict - can we really ALL come together & want the same thing? We seem to do so for very short periods after a tragedy, but then we forget. So who gets & who doesn't? My mother used to use an expression that may apply: "The squeakiest wheel gets the oil."