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I am Tosk

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On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:59:43 -0500, I am Tosk
wrote:

I still think putting all that money into roads that folks will drive
around on for free isn't as good as putting the money into factories t
make hard goods that can be sold to the public...

Scotty

Without decent roads, how will they get those goods to market?
Roads aren't "free" anyway. They get funded through gas taxes.
Unfortunately that fund gets raided for non-road things.

Well, I am certainly not advocating stopping maintenance on current
roads and such, but that alone is not going to save our economy or
manufacturing base. I don't think there are too many here who really
trust that the union highway workers are "productive" with our money. We
need to start making products again, period...

Our road crews are usually non-union contractors. We only wish they
would hire locally instead of outsourcing from "Blue" counties. The
stimulus money seems to be targeted that way.

No doubt the stimulus was more to reward blue areas and punish red
ones..

Scotty