We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents... and we've taken that inheritance and squandered it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.
Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.
It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.
Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.
People need to see where their dollars are going and what infrastructure is being built.
We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
I was ashamed of it, of the poverty I came from.
Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further.
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?