Here's The Chart Of The US Infrastructure Spending Collapse That Everyone Is Talking About

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30. "on structures"

This data is from the BEA. Go to BEA (http://www.bea.gov/iTable/index_nipa.cfm) and look for "government gross investment".

Some things:
1) Structures account for about half of government investment, the other half is equipment and intellectual property products (like creating new software and R&D). Both of those categories have a slight growth over the last decade to 2008 and flat since then.
2) Defense spending on structures accounted for about $10b per year except for a spike around 2008. The defense/non-defense distinction is a bit of a red herring, since defense spending on structures is not high.
3) State and local spending on structures has been falling the entire decade. State and local spending on equipment and intellectual property products have grown.