Your blog is very interesting and comprehensive. Keep up the good work. It would also be interesting to see your views on innovation and creative thinking in the corporate sphere as innovation becomes even more critical by the day.

Kishore Dharmarajan
Author of Eightstorm: 8-Step Brainstorming for Innovative Managers

You hit the ‘nail on the head’ in your statement: “Neglect of preventive maintenance of our infrastructure has been going on for decades, and it long predated the Iraq war.”

It is evident we can no longer count on our government (in reference to your statement below)?

“Because of poorly-conceived balanced budget requirements, constitutional provisions and statutes, many politicians avoid spending money to avoid current-year hits. They starve transportation departments of the staffing needed for maintenance projects.”

Michael, you made some very good points and I believe “we the people” who elected supposedly key politicians in the past have not made an impact making the world a better place.

We (taxpayers) need to write to our congressional representatives providing a “solution” to the problem(s). Let us use the entertainment industry for an example; say for every a movie ticket that is sold in Connecticut, .50 cents goes towards a fund (WE created) for D.O.T. What is in it for the movie theater? For starters, maintained roads leading to their parking lots… I realize this example is simplistic but why would we want to make things so complex?

What is bothersome to me is that the “Media” points out the problems in the world but rarely provides the “solution” to the problem. Many of us see this therefore, WE the taxpayers of this state need to get together some how, pick ‘one’ problem (that will make an impact), work the problem then, solve the problem and hopefully others follow.

~Paul Michael