Posted on 10/08/2010 10:31:26 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
krug is a full blown commie.
LLS
There was about $20 billion of infrastructure “shovel-ready” projects in the porkulus bill, and this was the only money for projects the R’s weren’t opposed to. EVERYTHING ELSE was completely wasted.
$20 billion for infrastructure is like pissing on a forest fire to try to put it out.
Maybe it’s easier than that:
“So this was a terrible, shortsighted move from New Jersey’s point of view.” ( maybe from NYC point of view)—
“Add in the fact that many residents work in New York,” (lots of wage tax loss if NJ stops being thought of as a bedroom community and people have jobs there as well as sleep there.)
“News reports suggest that his immediate goal was to shift funds to local road projects and existing rail repairs.” (all the better for residents of NJ to get around NJ, spending their money there rather than NYC)
The tunnel was never intended for either Amtrak or the Long Island Railroad. It was a stub-end tunnel and station intended exclusively for New Jersey Transit.
The idea was to get NJT out of the existing tunnels to provide more capacity for Amtrak and lessen the congestion at the existing Penn Station.
Good point. If New York wants its workers to live elsewhere and somehow get into Manhattan and Brooklyn every day they should do something about that with their own money.
Krugman is a disgrace. Krugman fits the description of jackass, just like Obama.
kinda expensive for a stub end tunnel?
Mr. Krugman, would this work today? How much would this labor have cost, in today's dollars, if instead of three hots and a flop and a small wage, workers were required to be employeed, say, at union rates and with full benefits, including Obamacare?
And would the young people on welfare, or whose families are on welfare, even consider doing manual labor for a comparable compensation?
The Civilian Conservation Corps, for example:
The typical enrollee was a U.S. citizen, unmarried, unemployed male, 18–20 years of age. Normally the family was on local relief. Each enrollee volunteered, and upon passing a physical exam and/or a period of conditioning, was required to serve a minimum six month period with the option to serve as many as four periods, or up to two years if employment outside the Corps was not possible. Enrollees worked 40 hours a week over five days, sometimes including Saturdays if poor weather dictated. In return he received $30 a month with a compulsory allotment $22–25 sent to a family dependent, as well as food, clothing and medical care.[12]
YES.
Mexico is building a border fence on its southern border to keep illegals from coming in through Guatemala. We should be able to manage a fence on our border as well.
Urban infrastructure projects are always expensive. It’s been 110 years since an infrastructure project in New York was reasonably priced.
Anything Kroogie says is Shovel Ready.
-and a jump to the head of the line for military enlistment.
Seems to me this could be adapted very well for taking people from NJ into the city and back.
Put some of these on the roads and it would be like adding train lines. Plus it would make Jersey look cool.
when it comes to wasteful gov. spending, at least projects like this have benefits, but instead of two new lines to the refurbished PennStation in the Farley building that could be used to connect to Grand Central Terminal , the Lirr, Amtrak or future high speed rail, two lines to a new , huge terminus that can only be used for NJT is a joke.
And I say this as an unapologetic railfan
Concur.
Does anybody believe for half a second that the unions would let civilians do the work?
All of the projects named would be union jobs. Every last one of them.
Why hire 100 unemployed Americans when that same money will hire 8 union thugs who will do half the work much more slowly?
And we all know how Obambi just LOVES his union thugs!
Bottom line — ain’t happenin’ but thanks for asking.
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