meanwhile, our tax funded waterways are plagued with obsolete and undersized facilities.erate, and maintain airports, highways, sea ports, ect., but none of the major players are u.s. companies. we are missing out on in entire industry as a participant, and of the 300 billion dollars that's been raised over the past decade in infrastructure, equity investment funds, while 30% of the money has come from u.s. investors, most of that money is being spent overseas because that's where the pp opportunities are. why does this matter? what are other countries getting by enabling a large use of long term ppp's in infrastructure? i see four major benefits. first, as the governor said, obviously, investments which we need, an important benefit, but more important is more productive investments because ppp projects, in order to be able to get financing, has to meet a market test, they have to demonstrate that the brojt benefits exceed the cost and likely reduce return on investments. that's a very important additional benefit. third, we can shift significant risks of infrastructure