Wall Street is everything
Your right on the need for fortifying our infrastructure but you miss understand the United State and what has and is becoming. With Romney wanting to "privatize FEMA" and Bush Jr. putting people he knew as head of it and not people with the training and capability, Wall Street will be everything.
Its all about short sighted fast profit thinking and if it does not fall into that category our infrastructure will over the next 2 decades falter. What should be interesting is how the Gov. handles the aftermath of this Cat 1 hurricane. Will be interesting to see which parts come up first. Wall Street (probably) or other areas with actual people. So with more and more rhetorics of privatizing FEMA (Wall Street) and a push for Business to be Persons everything seems to be looking in the directions of Wall Street.