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To: carranza2 who wrote (53910)	8/22/2009 3:37:48 PM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217750

Hey, don't knock Wikipedia! There's good stuff there. Not all equally reliable, of course.

To: carranza2 who wrote (53910)	8/22/2009 4:44:43 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217750

About 20% of the money was only for projects that could start construction within 90 days eligibility for funding from the $90 billion set aside for infrastructure. As you know: $310 billion in tax breaks for businesses and the middle class was to avoid impact on businesses and poverty alleviating scheme. Still my point is: do not expect much from the plan to be an engine for growth and stop decline that you mentioned in your posting. There is no wayy return to natural size can be stopped.

To: carranza2 who wrote (53910)	8/22/2009 4:51:29 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217750

Take Elroy's CA: Stimulus funds in California mostly go to routine projects, study says, California had one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation in June at 11.6%, and economists anticipate it to remain in the same ballpark when the latest numbers are released today. In fact, much of the stimulus money earmarked for California so far has gone toward run-of-the-mill projects such as replacing a metal guardrail with a concrete one in the city of Orange and conducting a campus-wide elevator study at the Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital in San Francisco latimes.com