While traveling across the country with your kids this summer, be sure to buckle-up and do your best to overlook all the potholes and crumbling bridges out there. Even if funding was available, things will probably remain in disrepair until your kids are grown, thanks to big government regulations and red tape.Former Obama administration’s U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood told CNN’s Rene Marsh during a recent four-part investigative report that America is “like a Third World country” when it comes to infrastructure and said, “The reason we have 57,000 deficient bridges is because we have not made the investment as a national government.”Apparently Mr. LaHood forgot about all the money taxpayers were forced to “invest” when the $831 billion Stimulus Bill was passed in 2009. We were told it would quickly lower unemployment with the creation of “shovel-ready” construction jobs intended to repair failing infrastructure across the country.In fact, the promise of “shovel-ready” jobs was the big selling point President Obama used to urge Congress to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [ARRA].