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To: quehubo who wrote (105436)	3/4/2009 7:51:44 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541955

Is that a WSJ editorial? Please give us the source of opinion pieces so we can put them in context, thanks. If it is, it's interesting how their absolutist views conflict with the polls they published last night on popular reaction to economic policies.

To: quehubo who wrote (105436)	3/4/2009 7:59:30 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541955

The Obama Economy Q, would you please provide a link for posts so we can know the source. And, if we wish, read it at the source. Thanks.

To: quehubo who wrote (105436)	3/4/2009 8:45:30 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541955

This is not from a partisan blog but from a daily newspaper from small town USA. This provides a good insight of your tax dollars at work where it should be; not at Wall Street feeding the greedy but in the towns and cities feeding the hungry. =========================== Area stimulus fund requests exceed $88M By James Cummings and Ken McCall Staff Writers Wednesday, March 04, 2009 Governments in the Dayton area have submitted 95 applications for road and bridge projects they would like to be funded through the federal stimulus package, including six projects costing more than $3 million. The region has about $17.3 million in federal transportation dollars to distribute through the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission, agency Director Don Spang said, but member organizations have submitted more than $88 million in requests. The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority expects to receive nearly $20 million in stimulus funds from a separate portion of the package, according to Mark Donaghy, RTA executive director. The extra funds will be used to accelerate the agency's replacement of buses, he said. Project Mobility will see 80 new units designed for handicapped services delivered in 2009, Donaghy said, and new fixed route buses will be delivered sooner than scheduled — 24 this year, 50 in 2010. Some of the most expensive proposals under consideration for a share of the road and bridge funds include: • $6,457,143 for the city of Riverside: Harshman Road and Valley Pike improvements (including asphalt overlay, manhole adjustments). • $6,116,000 for Montgomery County: Broadway Street Bridge rehabilitation (installation of a deck over the Great Miami River). • $5,767,525 for Jefferson Twp.: Road widening on Eshbaugh, Forney, Germantown-Liberty and others. • $5,005,000 for Washington Twp.: Street improvements, including resurfacing. • $3,625,000 for the city of Dayton: Five projects to improve sidewalks, tree lawns and other amenities at various entrances to downtown. • $3,209,681 for Greene County: Completion of a three-lane street for the Innovation Way access road. The complete list of proposed projects was posted Tuesday on the planning commission's Web site: mvrpc.org. Click on the "March 4 meeting" headline, then "Draft list." The public is invited to review the requests from 4 to 6 p.m. today, March 4, at MVRPC offices, 1 S. Main St. The list will be available through March 11. Agency staff will present recommendations to the Technical Advisory Committee on March 19. The board is to vote on the package April 2. daytondailynews.com

To: quehubo who wrote (105436)	3/4/2009 10:08:23 AM
From: NAG1	Respond to of 541955

QH, I may not have been listening to the news much lately but I don't hear a lot of blame going on right now. What I do hear is that we have a problem that needs to be fixed. I will pick one spot, and forgive me is my timing on this is off, to take issue with the article/opinion piece. To say that there has not been any new shocks to the economy is just wrong. What about the most recent jobs report? Didn't Obama come into office and get faced with hundreds of thousands of job losses at the major companies? The person who wrote this has his/her own bias and, in my opinion, isn't even being accurate with how they choose to slant the data. Feels like something you would get from a Rupert Murdoch company. There must not be enough in the bailout plan for media companies like his. People, especially Republicans, are taking the position that Obama claimed to be a miracle worker and since things haven't miraculously recovered in his first week of office, he is a failure. Seems a bit disingenuous. There will be plenty of time to play the blame game later when there are real things to be critical about. I will make one prediction. If the economy recovers and the Obama plan turns out to have been the right move, the next lines that will be used against him will be that Bush was the one that started the recovery and that the recovery would have been stronger if they had only put more tax cuts in place. Neal