and back here at home...

US grain exports snagged by infrastructure delays
By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD and CATHERINE TSAI, AP Business Writers
Mon Aug 25, 2008
Across the country, from grain elevator to grain elevator, golden wheat and corn are piled in towering mounds, waiting for a rail car to haul them to market.
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It's the dark side of the booming global demand for U.S. corn, wheat and soybeans. The surge in exports is revealing inefficiencies in the country's railways, highways and rivers that carry the grain that helps feed the world. And those bottlenecks are costing farmers, shippers and ultimately consumers millions of dollars a year.
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How much have W and his minions spent on transportation infrastructure? (Recall: our bridges are falling down due to lax, underfunded oversight!)

We've spent more than $500Bn in Iraq over the past 5+ years.
How much have we spent on improving transportation infrastructure?
(I could probably look it up... anyone want to tell me?)

... and now it's costing us!

Stop the madness!