In his February State of the Union address, President Obama called for $50 billion in new spending on “an aging infrastructure badly in need of repair.” The I-5 bridge collapse in Washington state Thursday evening calls attention to an all-too neglected infrastructure in the context of decade of expensive war-waging. According to AP analysis the collapsed bridge, built in 1955, was not considered “structurally deficient” but is listed as being “functionally obsolete” – “a cate… [more]