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Obama Assembling $850 Billion Infrastructure Spending Plan to Jolt Economy

The plan envisions funding for road and bridge construction, as well as some tax breaks

Posted December 18, 2008

Reader Comments

Infrastructure spending

Do your homework - the house version of the bill only has 30 Billion for infrastructure - less than 5% But the "For Sale" sign keeps says shovel in the dirt projects for this bill.

stimulus plan

The Pork of previous congresses has turned into The Whole Enchilada with this Obama driven congress. Where's McCain? Oh, yeah. He voted for the previous $700B bailout with the $150B Pork.

Solutions

Are these your solutions to fix this economy? I personally am willing to listen to ideas that will even only have a small impact correcting the mess that the last 8 years of economic policy has produced for us. I don't know how clueless spends his money, but you miss the point. Over 50% of voters feel that Obama's administration is going to spend the governments money better then the Bush administration has or McCain administration would have. I can't believe after 8 years, you direct your anger at the president elect who has yet to put his policies into place and not at the president whose 8 years of policies got us here.

Your Money?

That's a little selfish, isn't it? Obviously over 50% of voters feel the government spends the money you work hard for better than you do. The government has such a good record on efficient spending that I'm surprised they haven't arrested decenters like you.

Clueless

Spending on infrastructural will only have a small if any impact on the economy. Why? 1 out of 5 dollars are spent within the first year the remaining are spent in the following five years or more. This is due to the amount of red tape, environmental impact studies, and law sues, all come from big government and from the left trying to save everything and everyone.

STOP SPENDING MY MONEY!

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