Are The Austerity Alarmists Gone For Good? | Talking Points Memo

Yes.

When Eisenhower was a young man, right after the First War, the Army sent him on a two-month trip across the United States, from DC to California:

The purpose was to survey our nation’s roads, including the (then-new) Lincoln Highway (not incidentally a project pushed by the first car dealer in the country).

What Ike found did not impress him all that much. Whereas later, when he was in Germany, he discovered its autobahn system, which did impress him.

So when he became President, he was more than prepared to support a new network of inter-state highways.

Of course there were other supporters, each with an obvious motive.

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