A brief history of US infrastructure

To understand the visceral reaction of many in the US to the whole notion of infrastructure privatization, it is important to look at history. Infrastructure has been the binding agent without which the US would not exist. It has played a crucial role in all the most important episodes in the country’s history. From the times of the earliest settlers hacking their way through the wilderness, to unifying the 13 colonies into a new nation, to expanding westwards in the 19th century, to healing the nation after the civil war and in putting it back to work after the Great Depression, infrastructure has physically bound the US together.