If there were to be one aspect of a Trump presidency – and one aspect alone – to look forward to it would be the revitalization of aging American infrastructure. Throughout the course of both presidential campaigns the rival party nominees differed on every other topic apart from rebuilding faulty public works. Often attached to increased emphasis on new utility construction was job availability. Particularly among recently unemployed American workers who felt their livelihoods had been stripped from them and shipped overseas. Understandable is the plight of the unemployed laborer, displaced by an economic model too efficient to accommodate American manual workers accustomed to being able to acquire a steady, decent salary position assembling automobiles or other factory responsibility.

Whichever presidential scenario came about – obviously, a Trump victory in our situation – likely would have yielded continued rhetoric concerning the state of national civil works and how to go about repairing or adding them. Per a statistic provided by the American Society of Civil Engineers the required maintenance and construction cost of these structural assets totals more than three-trillion dollars to be spent before the year 2020.