The Federal Government has been quick to bailout big banks and finance wars in distant lands - to the tune of trillions of dollars and a resulting record debt.  The Federal Government however has been slow to, and probably cannot, finance a Decaying U.S. Infrastructure.  This article picks out the topic of America's dams and reveals that 20 percent of the nation's 85,000 dams could give way.  That problem is only a drop in the bucket (no pun intended).  See this website for a good comprehensive overview of the infrastructure problems facing America.  $2 to $4 trillion dollars should fix it - but that money has long gone - to building Ghost Cities in China.