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America's infrastructure is crumbling around us. But with $120 billion in stimulus money targeted toward infrastructure, the government had better look before it leaps.
Why? Because the construction industry-plagued by wastefulness and inefficiency--is just as broken as the infrastructure it's charged with repairing.
When government pumps money into broken industries--such as the financial services or automotive sectors--with no strings attached, we have seen how billions can be wasted.
