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Juliette Kayyem

Bridge to the future

This time, let’s build infrastructure that lasts

By Juliette Kayyem

 |  Globe Columnist  

  February 16, 2012

President Obama’s blueprint for fiscal 2013 has a lot of losers, and it is not the rich Americans who might see their taxes increased. For all the bad news, the budget also reflects a commitment, in numbers, to rebuild our neglected infrastructure. It is ostensibly for job creation. But it is also an opportunity to promote the obvious, but so often ignored, sentiment that we should not simply build, but build to last.

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