Infrastructure spending could be a useful expenditure or a boondoggle. The trouble is, there is no easy way for the public to know one way or the other. Who reports on how the money is dispersed (here in Canada it is generally a three way split between the three levels of government, or in some cases, a two way split between two levels.  I know that but many readers would not, and I have no idea how it works in the US), what the needs are and what the requests are?  No MSM seems to take the time to provide this context for its readers. This is my complaint against MSM - the lack of in-depth reporting of unslanted facts that the public can reliably use .