State of Conn disagrees that 406 of its bridges are structurally deficient; says it's only 331.

[Chan790]

1. Not particularly...

but the NSA spy-upon-all-Americans budget is not a large as people think it is either.

It comes nowhere close to being enough to fix the infrastructure problems of the US. Intel gathering is cheap; the largest portion of the invisible money goes to USDoD and the Armed Services not the alphabet-soup intelligence agencies. Where we need to start taking money for infrastructure and transit funding is energy-subsidies as they've been shown to not actually lower the consumer-price of energy even one cent. Why give Exxon and BP free money when they gouge consumers every chance they get and charge the maximum price they can?

Also, I have a slight problem with the way information was presented in that article...I guess 27^th-worst sounds more dramatic than 23^rd-best. CT is in the top-50% and they still choose to present the information from the bottom-up.