Posted on 03/27/2017 3:07:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you think about it, these jobs are something to benefit the nation, our collective property.
I would like to see people on welfare get first shot at these jobs.
We are spending half a trillion dollars on welfare each year.
If these jobs lasted three years, the reduction in welfare outlays could make serious impact on the outlays for the infrastructure rebuild.
If we could reduce welfare by $333 billion per year, that pays for one trillion in infrastructure costs over three years.
The outlay would be the same, but our infrastructure would be restored for no additional cost.
So you would take welfare recipients, move them to the middle of the country, pay them $306 a week, and call that a good job?
Where do you all get the idea that this is a government project? This isn’t the WPA. The government is not building the pipeline, private industry is. The Treasury is not footing the bill, private industry is. So why do you want to force them to hire people just to get them off the welfare roles? Is that the quid pro quo for this?
This is about people doing nothing and getting welfare. Here they would be doing something for the money.
I referenced these jobs as entry level type jobs.
Near the job sites would be bunk rooms for the workers, and there would have to be food services and restrooms.
The goal was not to creat good jobs. The goal was to get our infrastructure rebuilt with as little negative impact on the nation as possible.
It wouldn’t be the type of job to support a mortgage. It would be the type of job to reduce our outlays for welfare, something that has been given for nothing in return.
I did not address the pipeline.
The Wall should be the infrastructure program. Build the entire Wall in under two years. That should make the unions happy. The result would be a twofer: economic stimulus plus get the Wall built fast.
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