We could also use our public purse to build generously for future generations. These are choices we can still make.

Timberline Lodge (absolutely glorious), Bay Bridge, Hoover and Grand Coulee Dam, LaGuardia Airport, Lincoln Tunnel, the San Antonio River Walk, Griffith Observatory in LA, and thousands of schools, libraries, hospitals, sidewalks and more.

First time at Red Rocks Amphitheater recently and learned that it is yet another spectacular public works project initiated under FDR’s New Deal program and the Civilian Conservation Corps. The long tail of that 10 years of federal agency-driven construction is hard to fathom: