Changing Dynamics within U.S. and World

I was trying to go to sleep late tonight and thinking more about the 67 people in the New House of Representatives (the 113th Congress) voting against AID to the Hurricane Sandy Victims and trying to think what this means?

The best I can come up with is the radically changing dynamics within the U.S. and world away from anything it has been at least in the last 200 years or more.

What the U.S. has is Infrastructure more than most nations (but we are not repairing sewers or gas lines or bridges) or other parts of our infrastructure fast enough to keep up with our actual needs.

So, what does this mean? It means that labor is too high to replace our infrastructure with what is presently happening on earth. And this isn't likely to change. So, maybe volunteerism can help with this.

If we cannot afford anyone in a union to repair or replace our aging infrastucture then it cannot be replaced in that way. This is a given. Then new ways to fix and replace infrastructure must be allowed to happen. Otherwise, we are over as a modern nation. This is all very true.

My thought is to combine  volunteers who are presently unemployed with engineers who are trained in various fields to repair and to replace infrastucture since it cannot be done in any other practical way from now on because our country is not economically in ascendancy through manufacturing or exporting on earth at this time. The main thing we export is ideas which are then manufactured elsewhere more and more because of lower labor costs than here.

Our present culture and infrastructure is not maintainable in the old ways. Understanding this and not being too proud to change to survive these times is what will allow the innovation of Americans to continue.

However, if we overregulate as if we still were ascending economically as a nation when it is no longer true we only cut our own throats and have no one to blame but ourselves and our pride and egos.

So, our level of innovativeness and resourcefulness  will determine whether we rise or fall in the short and long term as a nation.