"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"thunder" wrote in message
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:54:24 -0500, BAR wrote:


This highway work should have been occurring for the last 40 years due
to it being funded by federal gasoline and diesel taxes.


Yup, there's been lots of infrastructure neglected. Hopefully, this
stimulus package will kill two birds, get the economy moving again, and
fix our crumbling bridges, and roads.

Hopefully it will be structured and managed differently than the WPA
projects that Roosevelt initiated.
I was reading recently that problems with them included waste,
inefficiency, cost overruns and late schedules.
Because it was a federally backed program designed to hire unemployed
workers, the jobsite foremen had no authority to discipline or fire
slackers.

That's bad news because when some can sit on their asses and still get
paid, it affects the rest.

Eisboch

Yep, seems quite acceptable these days to steal a little bit from a lot of
people, and it is OK. A slacker does this, no one person immediately
suffers, just that a lot of people eat a little cost to carry the larder.
Trouble is when too many slackers/larders get on the wagon the weight on the
real worker then becomes too much.

Sort of like today. Poor middle class worker has no cash and the economy
faulters. Bailouts for all the losers and screw the worker. Totally ass
backwards. Instead of spending $1T on bailouts, cut the middle class
workers taxes and let the blow hard incompetantants see their local church
for handouts. Does wonders to get the leaches to see more value in working
and less in slacking.

We have lost our moral ways on this for sure. Too much generosity to the
wrong types fosters more abuse of the system.

.....wonder where my bailout is dammit.... LOL.