DAVID POST: “Really, our public infrastructure – our public life – is in the process of deteriorating, and we don’t seem to be able to summon up the energy required to do anything about it.”

It’s worse in Philadelphia where he lives — and I agree that it’s worse in the Northeast generally –but there’s something to his point on a broader scale. Bloated payrolls and inadequate performance are typical of government, of course, and there’s no reason why infrastructure should be different. What’s more, the broader the responsibilities of government, the worse job it tends to do at all of them.

UPDATE: Further thoughts here.