re: #186 goddamnedfrank

Materials and labor prices are down now. We’d spend less now doing maintenance that will cost more later, both in terms of competing for materials and labor in a healthy, recovering, saturated market, and because deferred maintenance inherently costs more to fix later. This is precisely the time to repair our aging infrastructure.

Except we have to borrow the money to pay for it there by increasing our cost with interest. And adding to our dept, the growing gorilla in the closet.