What happened to the last stimulus for all those "shovel ready" jobs?

Another line.

geezus
just one bad decision after another.

Hey Obama, here's ya a hint !!!!

GIVE IT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE
SO THEY CAN GET OUT OF DEBT
OR START THEIR OWN BUSINESS !!!!

Don't give it to the already existing
corrupt corporations who's gonna
pass it along to stockholder's wallets.
Put it in real American's wallets.
You're giving it to the WRONG PEOPLE
to do us any good.

Not even counting the fact that by fostering
infrastructure growth you are essentially
helping illegal immigrants more than legal
Americans. Those jobs will be contracted out
to contractors who will hire illegals instead
of the unemployed. You need to get your head
out of ur arse.

Originally posted by boondock-saint
geezus
just one bad decision after another.

Hey Obama, here's ya a hint !!!!

GIVE IT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE
SO THEY CAN GET OUT OF DEBT
OR START THEIR OWN BUSINESS !!!!

Don't give it to the already existing
corrupt corporations who's gonna
pass it along to stockholder's wallets.
Put it in real American's wallets.
You're giving it to the WRONG PEOPLE
to do us any good.

Well considering that his is a communist wouldn't such a thing enrage our good real american friends?

I agree with you, Bush should have given the bailouts to anyone holding debt with the
companies we bailed out. Obama should do the same -

Further more once those Bush tax cut expire, he should transfer the exact same
in cuts to the middle class, just as the wealthy were targeted previous.

Rather than giving inefficient, corrupt, big government, pig contracts the whole time, why not just give small businesses (the ones that employ the most, and struggle the most) more tax breaks?

Oh is that too much like capitalism, and Obama seeks a corrupt Social sector, like Republicans seek a corrupt Military Industrial Complex?

I’d say: Do something others can follow this election, vote for any party that can’t win, but should.

Originally posted by anglodemonicmatrix
Construction isnt that Halliburton,Kellogg Brown and Root,Bechtel etc dont all these outfits still owe us for billions of dollars of infrastructure in Iraq?

good luck on collecting that
hahahaha

Are people really against this? The transport infrastructure in North America is critically outdated - a bridge collapsed in Quebec not so long ago. The highways and railways have not been given adequate expansions in years, and what little exists now is decaying, to boot. The economy needs more and better transportation in order to thrive, and it is certainly better to repair a bridge than let it collapse and blame THAT on the President.

I would personally like to thank our great-great grandchildren for volunteering to pay for our beautiful new infrastructure projects.

Relinquishing debt to the unborn is such a liberating feeling. They don't even need to exist yet for me to feed on the sweet sweet fruit of their spectral labor.

After all, we have the right to free road-care. It's in the constatooshion somewhere. Ah! here it is. Article 3, section 5:

"Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you."

I think Jefferson said that.


And I did my part. I vote for the politicians who promise me the most goodies. Even better if those goodies come at someone else's expense. Those are the best kind of goodies.


No wonder capitalism is dead. This works so much better! God bless legalized theft! God bless the children! God bless America!

We need to do this. The trick is to get this past our creditors. That's probably why he said it would be fully paid for by an "infrastructure bank". I'm not sure how that would work but interested to find out.

When I was a kid much of our infrastructure was built. It's still the same now. Many bridges need to be rebuilt, there's a major bridge near me that they keep patching and patching, I hope finally it will be rebuilt now.

$50 billion is not near enough. For example they're only going to repair 4000 miles of railroads. I'm sure there is much more than that needing repair. Paul Krugman things stimulus should be on the order of 1 or 2 trillion.

What about all the debt? Well the fact is, the dollar is going to have to decrease in value. Otherwise we cannot even pay existing debts. Rather than cut Social Security, inflate the dollar. That will effectively cut social security but it will also devalue the Treasury bonds held largely by foreign creditors. In other words, spread the pain around.

I've heard a rumor that China (yes China) is going to "print" massive amounts of money now. It's still just a rumor. But China has to keep their people employed too. All countries need inflation to reduce debts and force people to spend. Otherwise there is no recovery. We need inflation!

And we do need to manufacture. We can't go on being "post-industrial" forever. That's nonsense. It doesn't work. If we import, we have to export, otherwise we cannot pay for what we import. Manufacturing doesn't just bring low skill jobs. These days it brings a lot of high skill jobs: CNC programmers (the new version of machinists), technicians, engineers. We can't just all sell each other services and cheeseburgers.

There should be a provision to ensure the workers on these projects are legally entitled to work here, preferably permanent residents or citizens. Maybe we can get that. After all, only citizens can vote. And I think the Dems are giving up for now on "comprehensive immigration reform". (For now they're going to push for the DREAM Act, which is also a bad idea because it is likely to give school admission preferences and discounted tuition to the children of illegal immigrants. Barbara Boxer and her Repub. challenger Carly Fiorina have both agreed to support that.)

Originally posted by CynicalM
What are you smoking???

Soma, Buddy! A gramme is better than a damn.

Originally posted by oniongrass
We need to do this. The trick is to get this past our creditors.

They're on board, not a problem. Like taking candy from a baby