Stephan:   I thought this was well understood; the data is certainly out there. But, the other day, I had a conversation with two men at the gym, and realized this was not the case. Then I saw a survey showing that 90 percent of Americans think the deficit is either the same or growing. This report puts it at 94 per cent. So here is an accurate data based assessment of the deficit. We need to quit worrying about the deficit and start worrying about rebuilding our infrastructure. There are parts of the United States that are now second world. We have become like the living room of an elderly couple who last decorated 50 years ago. You may know such rooms. We are living on the gift bequeathed to us by our parents, the veterans of World War II. It is their bridges, their railroad tracks, their trains, their water systems that make our lives possible. But the gift is of the physical world, and it has worn out. Meanwhile the nations that are our peers, are moving out of carbon and nuclear energy. Their mobile nets, their internet are orders of magnitude better than ours. On my island there are spots that have no coverage. Rebuilding will create millions of jobs, just as it did in the post-war period. It will lead to a far more successful healthful outcome. Click through to see charts.