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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (282279)	11/6/2015 1:45:23 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541866

"More roads more GW." More roads, more electric vehicles. I'm good with not repairing long-haul truck lanes, until delays force everything onto electric rail freight, tho. We don't need more roads. We need to fix the ones we have. We also need to build more mass transit, cuz, like it or not, the number of people who need to get around is still going up. I manage to talk myself out of driving 2 or 3 times a week. Last week it was EZ, cuz they are re-paving the highway, which means flaggers. Should be a pretty nice road, once they paint the lines. When I go to town, I park in one spot, and walk across the highway to the store.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (282279)	11/6/2015 2:21:38 PM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541866

But what a fucking dead end! More roads more GW good lord... we just need to fix the roads and bridges and infrastructure we have, that would be a start, and it would be a massive jobs program and stimulus, and something that needs to be done you're such a broken record, with your never-ending Krugman derangement syndrome, always going off on a tangent just inventing your own little reality you don't want to invest in the future of this country? then move to Mexico

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (282279)	11/6/2015 11:49:33 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541866

You are drawing conclusions based on over simplification and the famous mistake in logic:. "that is, therefore because of this". Post hoc ergo propter hoc. en.wikipedia.org <<<But why, given the spending by Japan, arguable one of the worlds leaders on infrastructure spending for fast rail, why hasn't that catapulted Japan into an economy that Krugman only can dream of? What is happening in Japan as their deficit climbs and their population falls is that more and more of the money the government takes in (taxes) is needed to service the debt - or add yet more debt. Compounded debt if you will.