Posted on 09/05/2011 1:26:16 PM PDT by Jean S
Correct GOP response:
Infrastructure stimulus spending will be approved.
It will be funded with 1:1 spending cuts in other areas.
The areas will be Medicaid transfer payments to states, and in the interests of being fair, DoD cuts, which will manifest themselves as reductions in civilian workforce at military bases in blue states.
We’ll see if they really want this stimulus.
I’m wondering for every dollar of government subsidized infrastructure spending how much is returning to the government in revenue?
Because we all know that all those who are unemployed are construction workers.
Because we all know that all those who are unemployed are construction workers.
There is nothing that makes a liberal froth at the mouth more than the concept of what they simplify as "the trickle-down theory" but that is exactly what they are proposing here.
“There’s no such thing as shovel ready projects” — Pres. Obama in NY Times
They should just throw that quote right back at him. He admitted the basis of his previous stiumlus plan was a fraud, now he wants to do it all over again.
Or, they could just point out that a fence would also count as a construction job, so let’s just build the border fence.
First, there is plenty of money in the current budget to pay for true infrastructure projects. What we don’t need and can’t afford is money to pay for electronic billboards that say “Don’t Drink and Drive” and sidewalks in the middle of farm country where no one walks on them. That is the old infrastructure bait and switch. Show a picture of a crumbling bridge and demand money to fix it, then spend the money on useless highway projects worked on by union workers who get paid a premium.
FRiend, I did pass through Lodi a few times but it is just a user name.
This is an attempt to get money to cover the money they raided from the Public/Union Pension funds in the last election. The rank and file haven’t realized that the leader in the White Hut only has to win one more election. Then who will cover the embezzlement? Fanny and Freddy paid for the 2006 election and they had to really dig for money in 2008. When 2010 came along, they had Stimulus One money. This is real critical for the Democrats. If there’s no money to steal, their campaigns are in the toilet.
Indeed. ButI don’t ever recall receiving a job from a road flagman. I’m sure beer sales will go up though. ;-)
FU UMFBO
Dont forget about the k rails and heavy equipment. Catepillar equipment from IL.
His plan is DOA !! Ignore it.Do not watch if your tv is monitored like directv by phone line. Watch the weather Channel.
Well, those stupid green signs that lie about a project (presumably road work) putting people to work, just around the corner, disappeared about the time Pres Zero laughed about ‘we found out there really weren’t any shovel ready projects’ - perhaps those signs will be repurposed for the latest money-spending boondoggles.
Did anyone ever see anyone doing ANY work anywhere around those signs? Because I didn’t, and in this part of Ohio there were quite a few of them planted along the highways.
Everytime I hear some rat talk about “fixing our nation’s crumbling infrastructure I hear “time for a another giveaway to my union buddies”.
Right near my place under the train tracks the road is heavily potholed, cars have to slow down, when there is a big rain or melting snow it becomes a pond.
They work on it from time to time. They patch the holes, temporarily. Why repave and fix it permanently when they can just keep coming back again and again?
or the need for High Speed Choo Choo
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