The New York Times' giddy, screaming headline says it all. Liberals are partying like it's 1929... Actually, 1932, when disgraced president and former wonder boy Herbert Hoover was driven from office by the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It's all about jobs. Mr. Obama is planning a massive jobs program ala FDR.
Mr. Obama and his team are working with Congressional leaders to fashion a spending package that could invest hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy. A big part of that would be infrastructure projects such as building or repairing roads, bridges, schools, sewer systems and other public utilities.If government is hell-bent on blowing a bunch of money, national infrastructure is much preferable to dubious "green jobs," and other lurches into socialist banking experiments. This could produce over 5 million jobs. Real jobs creating real infrastructure that benefits our nation.
The big ticket will be the public works spending. “We will create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s,” Mr. Obama said.
Now if we could just find 5.5 million Americans qualified and willing to do construction work. This could turn into a huge boon for illegal immigrants...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/us/politics/07radio.html?_r=1&ref=politics
3 comments:
This is as socialist as any 'green job' program. Investing your tax dollars into roads, and bridges is as socialist as anything.
Also, why do you assume illegal immigrants won't work construction, they seem like the only people in America who do any work at all, aside from push numbers around on a computer screen.
You've missed the point entirely. My prediction is we won't be able to find 5 million US citizens to fill these jobs.
Is is the proper role of government to build and maintain infrastructure.
That's the proper role of the gov't, but the gov't shouldn't help fund American environmental technology to make sure that America is one of the leaders in green technology in the future?
And of course they'l find people to fill those jobs, don't be silly.
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