If you're a commodity corn farmer in Iowa, you're LOCKED into an INFRASTRUCTURE that keeps you a commodity corn farmer.

You and I COME by ROAD or rail, but ECONOMISTS travel on INFRASTRUCTURE.

We have institutions that have been allowed to become too BIG to FAIL because we had all kinds of FLAWS in our FINANCIAL infrastructure, in the whole way over-the-counter derivatives work.

What we're doing is MAKING sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means TECHNOLOGY, it means INFRASTRUCTURE, it means INTERIOR enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I SAID before, the border is safe and secure.

When a COUNTRY doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the IDEA is that by providing better infrastructure, by linking the INTERNET economically, by MAKING it easier for these online BUSINESSES to exist, it'll make the web better.

The fact is, America needs energy and NEW energy INFRASTRUCTURE, and the Keystone XL pipeline will HELP us ACHIEVE that with good stewardship.

It's not all Obama's FAULT: His plans to rebuild AMERICA's energy INFRASTRUCTURE have been hampered by the recession, and his EFFORTS on GLOBAL warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.