Wheeling Toward Midterms

Life Is a Highway...well, only if there's
decent infrastructure

          Midterms are coming up. No, not the kind that make high school and college students cringe in fear and develop nervous twitches due to too much coffee and not enough sleep.  These congressional elections will, in all probability, have a wider reaching impact on American life (through the influencing and shaping of  American policy) than a teenager's temporary sleep deprivation.  Of course, President Obama realizes the significance the outcome of these elections will have on his ability to turn his agenda into policy and as such, he has been campaigning vigorously on issues that he hopes will court the vote into his party's fold.  One such issue is the national infrastructure--from highways to railroads to airline runways.
          Probably picking this issue because it generally enjoys bipartisan support, Mr. Obama can be assumed to hope that the strengthening of the nation's infrastructure (and especially highways) will generate the kind of economic growth that was seen under Eisenhower's highway program in the nineteen fifties.  His plan, however, extends beyond that of the Interstate Highway legislation of yore; in his plan, supported by various Democrats and Republicans , Mr. Obama proposes to not only boost funding for infrastructure, but to create a specific bank, purely for the purpose of holding infrastructural funds in order to make the process more organized.  This sounds logical enough, but then again, the American people at large (and indeed the American government at well) do not usually take kindly to nationalized banks, whatever they happen to be for.  Regardless of the efficacy of the proposed plan, I believe that if Congress is able to create a bill in accordance with Mr. Obama's suggestion, I am confident that this may sway some voters (for better or for worse) to vote Democratic, purely because it will look like the Democrats are (finally, in the eyes of many of the semi-jaded and/or right-bent public) getting something useful done.  Personally, whatever the outcomes of the midterms, I hope some sort of infrastructural bill passes, because goodness knows America could use it.