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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (23515)	12/18/2009 2:58:25 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

What was in the bill, both spending and tax cuts, (broken down by sectors): online.wsj.com

To: Wayners who wrote (23515)	12/18/2009 3:06:27 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

"only included 7% for transporation infrastructure" I agree with you that our infrastructure needs are way, way, bigger then that... AND that infrastructure spending gives a pretty good long-term return for the country because it creates assets that are used to increase our productivity, our industrial capacity, and the very 'live-ability' of our cities, towns, and rural areas. I think the problem was they were after a very quick 'boost' effect for the economy and there wasn't all that much that could be geared-up right away..... Two or three years down the road before something can be started and, while it might be an excellent and very useful project, it still probably couldn't be called "quick stimulus" anymore....

To: Wayners who wrote (23515)	12/20/2009 10:09:50 AM
From: tonto	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Infrastructure spending was too low. People are easily fooled by clever tag lines like shovel ready... We did not scratch what has been already designed and engineered and approved. Obama administration mandated lower labor projects for 2009 and lessor jobs and will increase spending to 12.5 percent in 2010 and do earth moving projects which require More labor. They purposely planned to keep these projects until this year...an election year and chose to keep those people unemployed for political gain. That is our government at work. Think about it... Oh, and btw, we engineer and manufacture structures and supply these jobs and work with the DOT. Our DOT requested to change mandated jobs since many were not high priority and the DOT advised Washington that there were higher priority jobs on the shelves and that these jobs will also provide more employment and they were advised to do as mandated. Capacity and projects were there, our government played political games for party benefit instead of representing us.