America must renew its infrastructure to avoid economic decline. As Americans, we know that our basic infrastructure badly fails to meet the demands of the 21st century as we daily encounter crumbling bridges, pot-holed highways, outdated airports and other critical public facilities across the country. Indeed, The American Society of Civil Engineers grades U.S. infrastructure a D+. As recently announced, a highway bill is making some progress on Capitol Hill — and it’s a good start, yet a great deal more urgency is needed.
When I was working summer jobs during school, I trained as an emergency medical technician and volunteered briefly with my local fire department. One of the key skills any emergency responder first learns is triage: when you arrive on the scene of an emergency with multiple casualties, you must first sort and prioritize all the patients based on their individual needs, then deliver their treatment in order of the most critical life-saving issues first, then deal with less-urgent injuries. For the full article click here
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