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Stimulus would let Caterpillar rehire workers: Obama
On Feb 12, 10:56*am, HK wrote:
wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:33:46 -0500, BAR wrote: 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. Where has all of the money gone that was collected in the form of taxes that was to pay for the upkeep of the existing infrastructure? All of my gasoline taxes did they get co-mingled in the general fund of the federal government and the state governments? In Connecticut, many administrations in the past 40 years (mostly republican) simply ignored infrastructure in order to appear to have a balanced budget. Does "Mianus River Bridge" ring a bell? It should. Deferred maintenance always comes back to bite you, and the eventual cost is much higher than if it had been done when it was supposed to be done. Connecticut currently has MAJOR bridges that are in extremely poor condition. Big chunks of concrete falling off, pins rusted through, etc. Been that way for a LONG time. The current Governor (another Rethuglican) hasn't done anythng to change that situation. She doesn't want to fix bridges if it interferes with her imaginary "balanced budget" That would be the Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota solution...wait until the bridge falls into the river.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Nothing to do with Tim Pawlenty, idiot. |
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