>>Have we not made those useless investments we'd be awash in cash without any diminution of our useful assets.
>>All this while people agonize over the Medicare deficit (which saves lives) and wring their hands and say that we can't afford to repair our crumbling rail system ( a useful asset.)
>>If I were a legislator involved in this insanity, I'd be talking about the wall too.

Trump has the redeeming feature that he's not responsible for prior disastrous decisions by swampers who have no term limits and oppose his every attempt to fix their mess.

E.g. you referred yourself to the furor from those responsible, when he declared intention to pull out of Syria.

The best way to be awash with cash has been shown by Australia that implemented a compulsory super saving scheme in the '80s. Despite all the theories against government competence in such matters, that scheme has such strong positives that Australia now is the 4th largest holder of pension assets in the world.

Had the US implemented a similar scheme at the same time, in 2015 I calculated you'd have hundreds of trillions of $ of public money to ride out any recession caused by greedy bankers, and purchase their distressed assets to be rehabilitated and resold for public profit. But that was all bungled, issuing loans and covering bad debts rather than allowing the market to prevail. Too late now, the swamp is back flush with cash and looking for ways to do it all again.