Posted on 08/01/2015 4:53:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai
When President Obama signed a law yesterday funding federal transportation projects for the next three months, he lamented that the United States did not have a five-year federal plan for transportation—and warned Congress that “big, powerful countries” like the Peoples Republic of China did not do it the way the U.S. is doing it now.
“I guarantee you this is not how China, Germany, other countries around the world—other big, powerful countries around the world—handle their infrastructure,” Obama said. …
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Maybe the union workers who build our infrastructure should take a 98% paycut so we can be just like China
Why not, it worked for Stalin.
Didn’t it?
The USSR and all it’s satellites work with five year plans and we all know how it turned out, except obungo, that is.
Welcome, Comrades! We have made it to a Stalinist paradise. Care for some Vodka?
For all you parents of seven-year-olds, you better get them into the factory, because that’s “how China does it”.
Also, China’s obsession with the EPA/environmental concerns are legendary. (Sarcasm)
From time to time their buildings also tend to topple over before they are finished.
Well, his is right, I suppose. It is great that we don't do infrastructure like the Chinese.
In the Soviet Union workers pretended to work and the government pretended to pay them.
Its those cracks in the brand-spanking new Three Gorges Dam that I’d worry about.
Why do commies love 5 year plans?
I despise you and both political parties completely.
Obola wants to be like the Butchers of Beijing.
Pass it on.
The DiC and his beard want to be communist rulers of the US
What “both”? I see only one. One-party rule for far longer than we care to admit.
A Five-Year Plan? Does he know that those were even a joke in communist countries?
The Dems have been doing short termers for years. The Repub Senate has proposed a 6 year plan....and the house will take it up when they get back from their vacation.
What is it with Marxists and their 5 year plans? Well, besides the massive opportunity for kickbacks, graft, and corruption... /no sarc
I bet he hasn’t looked at rural China lately.
Or some of the dirty, polluted cities where trash is floating in the rivers.
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