Trumka: 'We've Been Talking About Infrastructure for a Long, Long Time. It's Time for Action'

AFL-CIO ^ | 5/15/2014 | Jackie Tortora

[mdittmar]

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 distributes funds in three ways. Since its enactment in February 2009, $816.3B has been paid out.

Hey trumka,your union members aren't getting enough?

Hey trumka, 'Shovel-Ready Was Not as Shovel-Ready as We Expected';)

Talk to the Department of Health and Human Services,their union members got $138,841,591,824 Total Funds Paid Out

and the Department of Education union members got $94,296,130,450 Total Funds Paid Out.

and the Department of Labor union members got $66,377,982,666 Total Funds Paid Out

It goes on,

Hey trumka,maybe obama just doesn't like you.

[morphing libertarian]

let’s cut union officials and use the funds to shore up some ridges

[morphing libertarian]

bridges

[Paladin2]

Bammy already squandered his wad.

[GeronL]

Nobody remember Stimulus?

[MUDDOG]

Spending the money to rebuild our roads and bridges shouldn't scare us because it's not a sacrifice, it's an investment, said Trumka

Sounds good me.

Let's move some money out of food stamps and welfare and into road and bridge building.

And to get maximum bang for the buck, no more "prevailing wage."

[mylife]

Yes, the money was stolen a long time ago Trumka.
Yer a little late to the discussion.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

States should pay for their own roads. Tell the feds that their gas tax is now part of state’s transportation fund. This is a joke, letting the federal government tax gas in which the funds go and line the Ruling Class’ pockets.

[bert]

Richard Trumka is a terrorist. He led his terrorist United Mine workers on a terror filled strike in SW Va.

Post 9/11 their campaign is one of terror against the coal companies and their communities

[jsanders2001]

The MSM propaganda machine has been overworking (lying) a lot more than usual lately...

[EQAndyBuzz]

Republicans should say fine. And tell the union they are using illegals.

[windsorknot]

#UnionThug

[jsanders2001]

The guy talks like a Marxist getting ready to implement Agenda 21 guidelines to setup cities and roads. I bet this is where he’s going with this as this sounds like the same type of lingo in the “Safe Streets Act of 2013” which put the feds in control of community development on a widescale with the end result of giving them even more power over your lives by bringing it straight to your doorstep. The progressives look like they’re rallying to pull another fast one.

[AmusedBystander]

And tell the union they are using illegals.

At the prevailing Mexican wage.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks mdittmar.

Hoffa of the Teamsters trumpeted during the 2004 election campaign that Kerry was going to drill drill drill, including in the ANWR.

The better part of a trillion dollars was paid out under the “stimulus”; around here it appeared to be paid out during the runup to the 2012 election, though in one case (the farmer’s market at Fuller and Fulton in Grand Rapids) the *sign* about the ‘imminent’ work had been bolted up three years earlier.

There’s a new billboard on eastbound I-96 (no attribution, or “paid by” that I can see) claiming that almost all the bridges one is going to drive across are unsafe.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[faithhopecharity]

Find who stole our last six trillion dineros, which Obama told us was to include lots of new infrastructure. Use that money. (Or refund it to us )

[VanDeKoik]

Just so you guys know, “infrastructure” is a code used by the left to push for increased taxes in the name of “fixing” roads and bridges or whatever.

[jsanders2001]

http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/2013/06/20/a-new-bill-in-congress-would-make-streets-safer-and-more-accessible-nationwide/

[mdittmar]

If trumka was a real leader,he would ask his union members to sit out the 2014 midterms,obama and the democrats are obviously screwing them over!

Stand up trumka,call on your union members to sit out the 2014 midterm elections!