Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, railed against the "copper-hearted barbarians" who were destroying the American wilderness, even as he was lionized by the rising urban middle class that full-throttle 19th-century capitalism was creating.
So he played the reliable keys of opposition to grammar schools; rail nationalisation; giving councils the power to borrow to build homes; and investment in manufacturing, engineering and innovation.
Flooding has forced the closure of five schools, rail lines and a main road in Worcestershire.
In 2013, the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCEE) issued a report card that gave the nation's infrastructure an embarrassing grade of "D+" based on unmet needs to repair and rebuild roads, bridges, drinking water and wastewater systems, schools, rail and transit systems, and public parks.
They range in age from 7 to 71 with specialties as diverse as alpine racing, "new school" skiing, rails, jibs, and spine jumps.
Now Mr. Obama has said he will seek those extensions and more, including proposals to put people to work repairing and retrofitting roads, bridges, schools, airports, rails and other public projects, and giving tax incentives to employers to hire additional workers.
In his speech before a joint session of Congress, Mr. Obama is expected to push both for a payroll tax cut for workers and unemployment compensation for those out of work for six months or more, but also more stimulus-like measures designed to stem unemployment, like proposals for repairing and retrofitting roads, bridges, schools, airports, rails and other public works projects.
That's a lot of schools, hospitals, rail lines, houses.
It is also unclear what specific policies the UPF will run on, though Cottrell has previously voiced support for putting portraits of Adolf Hitler in schools and railed against multiculturalism and feminism.
Several financial institutions are already lined up to make investments totalling $1.7 billion, among them Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, Ullico, Citibank and JPMorgan.The background to this is that Mr Emanuel wants to spend about $7 billion to rebuild the city of Chicago on everything from streets, to parks, to the water system, schools, commuter rail and the main airport.
