YES, WE CAN
So long as you are getting set to spend billions of dollars of your kid's money via a new "stimulus" program, will you get to say what legacy you would like to leave?
Here's another idea to fund "infrastructure": nuclear waste clean-up and storage.
Robert Fulghum said, "Clean up after yourself." We know how bad business is at doing that, to everyone's expense. Well, the government isn't much better.
WHEN "NOW" AND MONEY COLLIDE
Here's one project that looks good to me, first pass:
Hannaford Nuclear Cleanup
And, if it is not Yucca Mountain (I honestly don't know all the issues involved), then ... let's get going, on something else, eh?