general john peabody who is the commander of the emergency operation and headquarters made a speech last week at waterways counsel incs symposium, and he said we have more miles in the united states than the rest of the world combined. so we need to use it. because infrastructure in part drives investment decisions. and ironically our locks and dams were in better shape in the 1964 when this article was written than they are iowa. i was too. i was 9 years old. as somebody said, they were built in the '30s and in the '40s and back then they still worked. okay. and you had a few, a thousand hours of down times every year instead of what we had today, which is several hundred thousand hours of down time. i think 166,000 is the last figure i saw. and the world keeps on spinning. time does not standstill, except perhaps inside the beltway. i spent part of tuesday inside a meeting working on a project for more efficient movement of grain and soybeans on the river, driving significant costs out of the system to help serve our customers. but it wasn't in north america. . the next meeting i went