Cut corners on infrastructure and look what happens

That pancake collapse of a building in Florida is an allegory for issues across the nation, in every town and county where people are constructing buildings, driving roads, and crossing old bridges. It’s a study of collapse at every level of American life: politics, business, aspirations of living the American dream and even faith in the possibility of justice. Case in point: the haggling in Congress over a long-overdue infusion of public money in public infrastructure. Arguing over who pays, how much, when, and what are the alternatives to waiting, just a little longer, to fix something that people would like to just take for granted as being invulnerable