Don’t blame the weatherman if it rains on your day off. He’s just forecasting the weather, not creating it.

Why would you be surprised that China’s ports, trains, and airports are superior to ours? Theirs are new. Our train system has been deteriorating for a century. We haven’t built more than a dozen major new airports in the last quarter century. And instead of building new ports, we’re selling our ports to foreigners.

I don’t blame Coke and McDonald’s for exploiting the market of China. Better the Chinese pay royalties to US companies on what they eat, than they keep their money in their pockets. It’d be nice if we were selling a lot of US-built cars and US-built farm tractors to them, but even just collecting royalties for them building cars and tractors based on our designs keeps American engineers employed.

Obama was saying we need to rebuild our infrastructure here. Like that’s news? For decades, politician of both parties have been saying that. They haven’t been doing anything about it, but they’ve been saying that in their speeches….