Sounds better than bailing out Wall Street fat cat bankers, if you ask me.
It’s been said that the New Deal actually exacerbated the Great Depression.
This is the crap you get when the most liberal senator in the country gets elected as president. Thanks a lot, America.
I guess I can start telling my three year old his future involves a gubmint pick ax.......
There is only so much infrastructure that we can build. Its not like Rebuilding existing interstates and highways. Sure there is some work that needs to be done but it isn’t going to grow the millions of jobs he wants. It cannot be relied on to substantially grow the economy....
To me it looks like there is going to be huge waste. Money to do and redo and do over existing highways when nothing is wrong with many of them.
Plus imagine the traffic nightmare during the Construction...
BIG DIG on a NATIONWIDE level....
This is just plain STUPID.
How long does it take to build a road or bridge? The planning/design/review stages take YEARS to complete.
How is this going to create large numbers of jobs?
Where do I apply,want some government cheese!
So what? Everyone who is unemployed right now can get a job building a road?
Think about it.
Wow more dum dum make work projects..
The Democrat legions are already drooling over this huge pile of potential graft.
Our school district would appreciate the extra $1000 they would get from DC so they can put solar cells on one of the grammar school roofs. It’s dark most of the school year, but that wouldn’t deter Mr Infrastrucure.
Bush = Hoover
Barack = FDR
2009 = 1933.
And the Democrats are the "party of change."
It did not really work for FDR, and it won’t work for obama.
Besides, there is the requirement that the domestic Department of Peace & Love, the internal army that we have heard to be promised at least as much money spent upon as the entire military, has to be funded and staffed. The real danger is going to be from the “National Security Defense Force”, the “civilian” army that obama is going to unleash upon the American public, as kind of a “national police force”, and the REAL threat whom we shall have to be defending against.
It will look a lot like the regime of François Duvalier, who was the notorious ruler of Haiti throughout the 1960s. Duvalier was a physician (the source of his nickname, “Papa Doc”) who worked in the Haitian government beginning in the mid-1940s. With the army’s support, he was elected to the presidency in 1957. In 1964 he declared himself president for life and indeed, stayed president until his death in 1971, when his son, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, succeeded him. Papa Doc was an expert in voodoo who ruled Haiti with brute force and terror, with a ruthless security force, the Tontons Macoutes, acting as real-life bogeymen who routinely executed his opponents.
Obama’s priority is roads and bridges. Our priority is paying the mortgage and putting food on the table. If the GOP knows what’s good for it, it will make this an issue.
He could reorganize every State Dept. of Vital Statistics to be like Hawaii's!
Allah Akbhar!
What about building a few mosques, with one on the Washington Mall, up from the Lincoln Memorial. That should bring a few bucks into the country.
Thought we elected a leader, instead got a soup kitchen cook.
Yeah , we need big new bridges to no where for the 5mph wind powered cars ;-)))
More like robbing the bank to pay for a public works program.