On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:38:58 -0600, thunder
wrote:

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:46:07 -0500, BAR wrote:


Infrastructure does not produce long term jobs. You can't keep pulling
money out of the economy and put it into infrastructure projects because
one day you will have no one to use the infrastructure. And, no more
economy to pull more money from.

Yeah, but it does produce jobs. Building and maintaining infrastructure
is a fundamental role of government, and one that we have been ignoring
of late. A lot of this stimulus package are projects the government
should be doing anyway.

The problem has to do with the other 85%.

Four hundred thousand new government jobs?