The American way encompasses the can-do attitude that animated the building of the nation, from the Cumberland Road to the Apollo moon shot. Consequently, rebuilding this 1.6-mile span will require spurning the creeping foreign dependencies to which the national economy has fallen prey since the end of the Cold War. It will also require aligning the mega-project with the president’s “Buy American” and “Hire American” principles — particularly American union labor, along with American architects, engineers, and the like.
Alexander Hamilton had delivered his seminal “Report on Manufacturers” to Congress in Philadelphia, pleading that “every nation ought to endeavor to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply.”
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