Putting America to Work or in Debt?

Roads seem better than wars and banker bonuses to me.

I go by the official sign on the top.

The bottom shoe strung sign placed illegally by the GOP mafia is to undermine the economic recovery.

It is also there to ridicule workers benefiting from reinvesting in American infrastructure.

I bet workers tore that down within the hour.

Translation of #4: Baaaaaaaaaah aaah aah.

Well, our infastructure is falling apart almost as much as our economy. IIRC, every $1 put into highways nets $4 in overall economic gain. So, yes, this is not a war, gulag, banker/big business bailout but rather something actually useful.

@#7 That is not the point… Point is that people have elected new administration believing its claims to change direction. Instead, administration have pressed pedal to the metal and sped up getting into the further debt by order of magnitude faster (literally: Bush insanity deficit numbers were almost exactly 10 times less than Obama). If you are in debt due to the previous administration and you do everything to cut it and spending – that is reasonable. If you are on debt from previous administration and think people chose you to dramatically increase it – you are either insane or driven by other concerns than well being of the country.

Where is this mysterious workforce? I certainly don’t see any in San Diego here.

0 people working = 0 productivity = 0 anything

Maybe I need to go check the closed parks and stuff for working people there. Maybe the streets and highways are intentionally left shtty so when they do work they have more work to do.

If anyone see any of the city workers working please take a snapshot and post it here so some of us can “feel” better about this whole reinvestment thing.

#12, Bush deficit numbers never included the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, whereas Obama deficit numbers do, so please, don’t compare apples to oranges.

#4. What workers? Has anyone seen any work being done where these signs are posted? I have not.

How is this helping?!

Build nuclear power plants, oil refineries.

#16 So that makes it better. Sheeple!

It is a joke people. We appear to be way past due for space aliens to stop by and save us all from sarcastic sign makers.

Why all the talk about construction work? Why are we bailing out the construction industry (and by extension, the material suppliers to the construction industry, concrete, steel, etc.) Because the construction industry has “overbuilt” itself and does not want to cut back either.

There is a point in every geographic area where there are enough buildings for the population, and the only need for construction is repair and replacement, not for new big projects for the “edifice complex” crowd. America, as a whole, simply has enough buildings. It is the movement of people into other geographic areas that is causing the illusion of “growth” for those specific geographic areas, and building new buildings makes the construction industry very happy.

Anyway, not everyone can work in a construction job. Most baby boomers can’t take the heat – the summer heat, the hot sun. They also cannot do heavy physical labor all day either, no matter how well they did it in their 20s. Age takes its toll on the human body.

And that is just one of many reasons this country is headed into the Great Depression of the early 21st century. The fake-optimists say it isn’t a Great Depression, but they aren’t putting their own money into removing the Great Depression, they always want someone else’s money to do it, or, when those “someone else’s” don’t appear, then they say the government’s money is required, even if it has to be borrowed.

I gotta stop this grumble, grumble.

#20 Psst… little pedro. If you’re going to pretend to be a bipartisan basher rather than just another right-wing hack, you need to try a little harder. The point being made here, my little bonehead, is that Dubya deceitfully kept the Iraq and Afghanistan wars off the books, thus hiding the true cost from the American public. This is something a bipartisan basher (hint hint) would criticize. If Obama is putting the war back on the books, he should be complimented for being honest with the American people.

So try harder next time OK little pedro? Your right-wing bias is showing.

actually, I don’t mind fixing the highways, as long as they use American workers. However, have you ever seen the prices paid to these projects? The contractors make out …the workers get paid slightly better, the citizens who pay are paying 5x the going rate for the same work in the private sector. Ever wonder why construction company heads drive such nice trucks?

#26 The only ones trying hard to avoid reality (because it hurts to much) it’s you and you fellowship of the sheeple.

How’s that change working for ya?

A federal spending surge of more than $20 billion for roads and bridges in President Barack Obama’s first stimulus has had no effect on local unemployment rates, raising questions about his argument for billions more to address an “urgent need to accelerate job growth.”

http://tinyurl.com/yje9nlf

# 23 Rabble Rouser “Gee, I guess Obama is making the country broke by investing in roads. Maybe he should wage a war on a country that never attacked us, or give bailouts to big banks…..”

He did and continues to do so.

“Not to mention the costs of the Iraq war were NOT put in the budget, but raised as “emergency” spending bills.”

Not all of it, get your facts stright.

“Maybe if we stopped researching better ways to kill people, and spent it on how to heal people, and give EVERYONE medical care, we might have healthier people, and fewer wars.”

Oh! Come on you people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
Come on you people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

The problem with infrastructure and jobs is the lag. Anyone who has built a house should understand this. Surveys, permits, engineering, environmental impact studies, more permits, obtaining rights, buying properties, the bidding process, and it goes on and on. Some of these projects can take years before equipment rolls. You also have interagency conflicts and pissing contests. Did I mention members of Congress getting involved in their districts projects and local politics?

Hey nitwits. A contract from the government to create work, yup, when the work is done so is that job.

lol, look at unemployment numbers: We went from 10.3% to 10% but that same week we lost 17,000 more jobs. Heck, by the governments numbers if we lose 17,000 jobs a week for the next 30 weeks, we will be at zero for those unemployed.

No No, I got it, lets say I am going to do a spending freeze, but raise all the budgets of those departments affected by 35%. yeah a spending freeze.

All I have to say is YES Obama, pleae go a help Harry R. in his re-election. Yeah yeah yeah

Read all of the Lefty posts here…talk about LEMMINGS!