down and i yield back to the gentleman from california. mr. garamendi: the president wanted to do two things in this area. one, the normal programs, the surface transportation program, the water resource is bill, but e wanted to add $50 billion of infrastructure investment and create an infrastructure bank which you so well described in your investment discussion here. none of that has been done to the detriment of the american worker. if the water programs that i was talking about early on, $44 billion needed in california, for every billion dollars you spend on a water project, you put 28,000 people to work with good middle-class jobs and i think the numbers would be similar to highways, bridges and the like. this is a great tragedy, we aren t moving in the direction of creating the fundamental investments, rather than we are disinvesting, we are consumer. and that doesn t last very long as you so well said. so what are we going to do about it? hopefully this house will und