Posted on 01/28/2008 12:41:28 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
If we're going to spend $150 billion, I'd like to suggest that maybe we add two lanes of highway from Bangor all the way to Miami on I-95. A third of the United States population lives within 100 miles of that.
This nation's infrastructure is falling apart. And if we built those lanes of highways -- with American labor, American steel, American concrete - I believe it would do more to stimulate the economy.
And the reason I say that is because when we were going through a recession in my state, we were in the middle of a billion-dollar highway construction program that brought about 40,000 jobs and brought a billion dollars of capital into the economy.
That's a long-term stimulus package that I think would have more impact on the American long-term future. And it would keep social capital from being wasted, fuel wasted. A lot of people in Florida sit around in traffic every day, never getting to their kids' dance recitals or soccer games because they're stuck in traffic, and we've done nothing about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at mikehuckabee.com ...
Already been discredited:
Highway to heaven (Huckabee’s nutty infrastructure plan)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960216/posts
cut taxes...cut spending...reduce regulation
and don’t let unions take control of construction projects
Ah yes, using tax money to create jobs. Didn’t Milton Friedman already debunk this myth?
Yes...but read the short article at the link...wouldn’t be able to start construction for over TWENTY YEARS if it was approved TODAY!
Huckabee a leader?
He couldn’t lead a horse to water.
“a large number of small-scale projects like playground reconstruction in low-income communities”
You have seriously got to be kidding me. How much infrastructure do you think a kiddies playground has? lol.
When I was an ironworking one of the guys had a community plan to build a playground so he a a team of us to donate our services in building it. Then when it was done at lunch we had a pizza party. Be serious.
Huckabee is over.
McCain: What’s a job?
Huck: Something I try to create by taxing people in order to bring hope for illegals.
Why lead a horse to water when you can build plumbing and save yourself the time leading a horse to water...?
Thanks
I didnt know that he said this
I heard it in a twisted fashion from the MittNittWitts
The idea has merit...
nothing will actually be built but after throwing billions of dollars we can say “we tried”
Huckabee is a fine man. A good Christian, a good family man, a great Preacher and man of God.
But his constant promotion of Christianity (not that there’s anything wrong with that) simply scares the pants off of secular conservatives, Jewish Republicans, and non-faithful Americans in general.
Like it or not, they are also part of this great Judeo-Christian nation we call America.
Which adds up to the reality that a Huckabee nomination would max out at about 25-35% voter support ... tops.
As much as Americans love faithful Christians, they don’t want the White House transformed into a Theocratic Pulpit.
As a strict Baptist myself, I don’t either.
Huckabee’s big mistake is that he is running for President seemingly as a way to PROMOTE his Christianity, and the idea of improving America is an afterthought.
People like GWB or Mitt Romney run for President in order to improve America. Their faith is something they remain proud to express and participate -— yet they don’t use it as THE driving factor in their political life.
There is a big difference between the two approaches.
Mike Huckabee scares me NOT because of his strong Christian faith, but because he would open the conservative Christian wing of the GOP up to the most intense vial scrutiny and criticism.
A Huckabee nomination would hand the White House over to the liberal Democrats for the next eight years, and maybe longer.
Read it again, and this time, take the Huckabee chip off your shoulder, it’s hurting your reading comprehension.
She said that only small-scale projects like playground reconstruction would fly below the EIS ceiling. A superhighway would take decades to gain approval. So Mr. Huckabee’s “jobs plan” would likely happen during Chelsea Clinton’s administration, if not later...
Are you going to pull a highway out of your backside? The reality is the infrastructure *needs* the public investment, which happens to also create good paying jobs. The jobs part is the good news, not the bad news.
And we can do all of that by raising taxes to “raise hope” in true Huckabee fashion!!!
He isn’t even in office and he’s already talking about pet projects to throw money at.
Yes, just as Huckabee you know what “we” need.
Furthermore, government projects don’t create good jobs...if you don’t know why then I understand why you support Huckabee.
2 words
Big Dig
(which Reagan vetoed in 1987 but congress overrode)
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