{"id":4111,"date":"2021-03-12T10:11:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:11:10","slug":"a-note-to-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/a-note-to-self\/","title":{"rendered":"A Note to Self"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Before the Biden Administration congratulates themselves too much they must get to infrastructure. IMHO, what follows is what is the most important to the USA.  This will bolster our national pride and this will return to us our identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The  USA once maintained a robust commitment to public investment in things  like spaceflight, medical research, the interstate highway system and  the development of the internet, backed by Republican and Democratic  administrations alike. Staying at the cutting edge is expensive: Between  1965 and 1980, federal expenditures on scientific research, physical  capital and education regularly amounted to about 2.5 percent of G.D.P.,  more than $500 billion today.But  that number plummeted in the 1980s. By Mr. Trump\u2019s first year in  office, Washington was spending less than 1.5 percent of G.D.P. on  public investment, according to an analysis of Office of Management and  Budget data from the Progressive Policy Institute, a center-left think  tank. Before the pandemic, this plunge meant bridge collapses, Amtrak  derailments and other disasters that Americans had come to see as  inevitabilities. During the pandemic, that same chronic underinvestment  invited mass death. Even the typically conservative U.S. Chamber of  Commerce has spent years lobbying unsuccessfully for major increases in  federal infrastructure spending. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Biden Administration congratulates themselves too much they must get to infrastructure. IMHO, what follows is what is the most important to the USA. This will bolster our national pride and this will return to us our identity. The USA once maintained a robust commitment to public investment in things like spaceflight, medical research, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}