Poll: Americans Strongly Back Increase in Infrastructure Spending
Reader Comments
Projects that people can see....
I believe that also we should expect a long term return from the investments we make. One example would be for aid to schools can be in the form of solar panels for the roof tops of the buildings. This not only provides jobs to manufacture a clean energy source, install the project but it will reduce the utility expenditures that local Boards of Education annually. These monies that are saved can be put into actual education activities. Immediate and long term return.
Transportation projects should address and use this approach as well. Reduce congestion, travel time, promote efficient use of the power that is consumed to move people and goods. Monies used to improve our efficiency will reduce our dependence on outside sources.
Taxes
The simple fact is this...if a munucipality or state can't get money to pay for needed infrastructure improvements - by needed, I mean : to keep up with population growth and higher traffic volumes (including heavy trucks carrying goods). The systems are going to fail. New subdivisions are built and hooked up to utilities, but the water plant and waste water treatment plants stay the same size while supporting greater volumes...we build new without updating the old. The same is true for bridges & highways. If the fed doesn't provide funding, rest assured, your local and state taxes will see sharp increases. either way the money will come from the public. CT uses a gas tax and income tax...cutbacks on driving & people losing jobs means a further loss. the burden will fall somewhere. An added note- I disagree with these major corporate & wall street bailouts - ridiculous. Why? Because they're big companies. If you add up all of the mid sized and small companies, you'd see even more people are affected by those...it's everywhere. Why do the biggest companies get a bailout? Why do my tax dollars pay their bonuses? Our mid sized company couldn't give raises this year and had to let go of some employees. Should the government bail us out? No...because where does it stop. Public infrastructure is ours and needed - that's not a bailout.
It wont work
It did not work in the 30's here our in Japan in the 90's in fact that is what drove us in to the depperssion in the 30's We are selling our childrens future. I can not belive how selfless we are. It will grow much bigger then it is and we will let our children and grand children pay for it. Not once in history has the government implament a porgram that has cost what they have said it cost or done what they have said it would do.Our best bet is to reduce taxes and government spending to give our children a better life. God bless us all for what they are about to do because the next bubble to burst is government debt.And there will be no one to bail that out and it will be worse.
Media trying to drum up support for Obama's reckless fiscal policies
Is the media making up poll numbers to support running up the national debt to trillions of dollars? The majority of Americans know that if an entity spends more than it has, it will soon grow broke. What government needs to do is to cut wasteful spending and lower taxes across the board so that the free market system can once again flourish.
The Messiah's big spending plan--it is only your money!
Does anyone remember two government funded and planned "building" projects: The Big Dig in Boston and the US Capitol Visitor's Center? Both of them way behind schedule and let us not even get into the cost! Now, imagine the same government in charge of infrastruture projects across the nation. As far as all those people "willing" to pay more in taxes to fund all these programs, I am a bit dubious to say the least. US News and World Report is part of the MSM that are in the pocket of the messiah. As someone who lives in the Washington,D.C. area, I am witnessing first hand the media and Hollywood idiots absolutely peeing themselves over obama.
The next four years should have a new slogan: Be AFRAID--Be VERY AFRAID!!!
this will only help if Americans get the jobs.
These programs will only work if "Real" out of work Americans get put to work. All the road crews that I see now are made up of mostly Mexicans....
Infrastructure Spending
I find it hard to believe 91% of the people agreed with this stimulus. The New Deal didn't work and I am failing to see how this will work. None of this covers sustainable jobs only temporary jobs. How is that a recovery? Either the people answering the question are still enamored with Obama or they have no clue what this package involves. This is burdening American with a tremendous debt just to feed an ego.
Infrastructure repairs raising tax on fuel?
Funding the infrastructure on increase of fuel tax...i say'Hell No!!! Missouri did that with a gas tax inititave. going to "repair roadways and bridges in Missouri. we got,however ,in southern missouri, was roadway patching , which made the road surface worse than it actually was and worn out tires from it and broken windshields form Mo.Dot's "chip and seal"..Hell No to gas tax!
