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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (475917)	4/28/2009 3:46:50 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1573708

Los Angeles Officials Probe Two Possible Swine Flu Deaths The Los Angeles County coroner's office is investigating two recent deaths for links to swine flu. Coroner's Capt. John Kades says tests are being run on two bodies to see if swine flu was a factor in their deaths, but there is no confirmation that the disease killed them. The Los Angeles Times reports on its Web site that both men's deaths were reported to the coroner's office on Monday. Coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey told the paper that a Bellflower hospital reported the death of a 33-year-old Long Beach man who was brought in Saturday with symptoms resembling swine flu. foxnews.com

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (475917)	4/28/2009 7:45:42 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573708

You call that stimulus, I call that pork. Ideally stimulus money would be spent wisely and productively with long term and short term benefits. But all government spending is stimulus. That's the point, that's what stimulus is. The government becomes the consumer when economic conditions cause the public to stop consuming. Now the Democrats are running up spending faster than Bush and Cheney could. But the Democrats are executing classic Keynesian economic policy whereas the Republicans were betraying everything they pretended to believe in. Can't you see the difference? During the 90's expansion, when Clinton was President, our fiscal health improved greatly. Bush and the Republicans can only dream of being able to say that about the last expansion. The Democrats will have their day of reckoning as well. It will all begin once the Baby Boomers retire starting next year. Doubtful. I think Obama represents a major sea change the way FDR did in 1932 and the way Reagan did in 1980. But we'll see... SD

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (475917)	4/29/2009 12:48:46 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573708

I hear $800 thousand is going toward the repaving of a backup runway at John Murtha Airport. How many jobs will it create? Isn't PA's unemployment rate over 10% at this point?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (475917)	4/29/2009 12:57:08 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573708

French stimulus Euros at work. Sarko's €35bn rail plan for a 'Greater Paris' By John Lichfield in Paris Wednesday, 29 April 2009 A driverless, 24-hour, regional metro system, in the shape of a giant figure eight, will connect Paris to its troubled suburbs by the year 2020, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced today. M. Sarkozy promised a recession-busting, €35bn investment in new and existing rapid transit systems to help to create a single "Greater Paris" from a jumbled conurbation of 12,000,000 people in the space of 10 years. "The economic crisis can only be beaten by grand projects," M. Sarkozy said. "There could be no grander project than to create a Greater Paris." In a speech inaugurating an exhibition of ten architects' visions for a "Grand Paris", President Sarkozy also promised a drive to create a million jobs in the Paris area over 20 years and to build 70,000 homes a year in the capital and its suburbs. He called for a brand new underground station for high-speed, long distance trains at La Défense, just west of the city proper, and the plantation of a new forest near Charles de Gaulle airport to absorb carbon emissions. There would also be a need, he said, for new "monuments" to rival the Eiffel Tower or the Arc de Triomphe. These would be constructed outside the present city boundary to create the image of a single, dynamic, greener and larger "Paris for the 21st century". To the disappointment of some, and delight of others, M. Sarkozy side-stepped the anguished question of whether to establish a new political entity for a "Greater Paris", to match Greater London. He said that he wanted to create a "project" for the whole of the Paris area without becoming bogged down in political arguments. Critics doubt whether a de facto Greater Paris can be achieved without an agreement on eroding the administrative boundaries between the city of Paris (pop 2,000,000) and its surrounding suburbs. President Sarkozy's suggestion yesterday that planning laws should be relaxed to allow the rapid building of new railways, homes and tower blocks also aroused deep suspicions. The political and economic barriers and poor transport links between Paris and its "banlieues" contributed to the alienation and deprivation which fuelled the suburban riots of November 2005. The British architect Richard Rogers says that he knows "of no other large city in which the heart is so detached from the limbs". Lord Rogers' team was one of ten invited by M. Sarkozy to put forward suggestions for the development of a "Grand Paris" for the 21st century. The ideas will be on display at the Grand Palais, off the Champs Elysées, from tomorrow. In his speech opening the exhibition, President Sarkozy promised a ten year programme, starting in 2010 or 2011, to improve rail links between Paris and its two airports and hundreds of satellite towns. He offered Euros 21bn for the "Big Eight": a 130 kilometres (80 miles), driverless, 24-hour metro system in the form of two large loops, joining across the centre of the city. The northern loop would have a branch to Charles de Gaulle airport and would also – with heavy symbolism - pass through the troubled towns of Montfermeil and Clichy-sous-Bois, where the 2005 riots began. The southern loop would link the centre of the city to, amongst other places, Orly Airport and Versailles. President Sarkozy also promised another Euros 14bn for the extension and re-equipment of existing Metro, regional metro (RER) and suburban railway lines. independent.co.uk