The committee wants the government to consider the renovations as a national infrastructure priority, akin to widening roads.
For the past few years, US officials have warned of a coming mega cyber attack against critical infrastructure, something akin to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
In addition to falsely misleading Maine people to believe we are steps away from the brink, the Maine Heritage Policy Center has convinced Governor LePage that borrowing to invest in infrastructure is akin to running up credit card debt.
The infrastructure bank is akin to the "shovel-ready" stimulus of 2009.
In this country where thousands of square kilometres have been cleared of impoverished human beings to set up mostly eco-system damaging infrastructures, uprooting is akin to amputations without anaesthesia, left untreated, open-fleshed and festering hidden inner deformities.
And these days, Tea Party enthusiasts object to infrastructure spending as quasi-Marxist, akin to the "Obamacare" they deride.
Leaving our ports or any aspect of our infrastructure in foreign hands is akin to thinking that the levees in New Orleans will never be breached or the Twin Towers will never be attacked.
And once fund managers know the potential exists for sustained returns akin to the infrastructure-type yields of 8%to14%4% that super funds typically seek, they will recognise the need for impact investing to be a mainstream part of their portfolios.
Housing is an economically sound investment but unless housing is treated with a level of investment and priority akin to other forms of infrastructure, we could well be on a road to nowhere.
Indeed, a national critical infrastructure plan will be an economic boon akin to the shale gas bonanza that has shifted the global energy epicenter to America.
In the wake of recent hacks, security and counterterrorism experts have urged the government to grant voting processes and results protection akin to what is being used in critical infrastructure, such as banking.
