So infrastructure is government spending and waste? I rather like the freeway system, the electrical grid, water supplies and the Internet among other (wasteful) government programs "that suck the life out of any other productive investments".
With that attitude it's a good thing you're working on your survival supplies.
Today, a lot of government spending is has enormous graft and waste in it. This is especially true when there is a program specifically to pump extra money into things, where the pumping of the money becomes the main driver, not the need of the work.
I was responding to a thing like "there should be a program to pump huge money into [put your favorite here]." When that happens, you get Solyndras x 1000.
By the way, the Internet boom was not the government. The government wisely realized that it would be good to let normal citizens and private enterprise expand Arpanet/Darpanet. Until then, you would not have heard of it unless you worked at a place like Oak Ridge National Labs.