Mario,
If Bush could hornswoggle $750 Billion, I don't see why Obama can't
with a stroke of a pen, do the same to rescue the crumbling bridges,
levees, roads, street signs so faded, they're unreadable, too! In my
hometown, I always drive on I-10, because if you aren't a native, you
don't know WHERE the hell you are on the local roads. The street
signs haven't been replaced since the 40's! Asbury Park looks like a
shiny beacon, compared to Louisiana!
New Jersey LOOKS better and better, every day, which is why I CHOOSE
to live here! I don't care what nobody says! There should be
safeguards in place to protect the taxpayer, who ultimately PAYS for
the mistakes of the elected! This whole country needs help!
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, marioa...@... wrote:
Hope we're shovel-ready enough to get some of those public works
funds
when they start to trickle down.
The Pockmarked roads of New Jersey 8 min. video:
http://tinyurl.com/8kvdoxOnline NewsHour | PBS
or text: http://tinyurl.com/98wlga
Infrastructure Spending May be Key to Boosting Economy | Online
NewsHour |
December 22, 2008 | PBS
Excerpts:
PAUL SOLMAN: The pockmarked roads of New Jersey, one small argument
for why
America desperately needs a massive infrastructure makeoverlike New
Jersey's Pulaski Skyway, a three-and-a-half-mile elevated road
connecting Newark
and Jersey City built in the 1930s.
BRIAN STRIZKI, state transportation engineer, New Jersey: This
bridge is the
same type of bridge that collapsed, the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis.
GOV. JON CORZINE, D-N. J.: We have got the engineering plans. All we
need is
the money to -- and the trigger pull on go-ahead.
PAUL SOLMAN: And it's not just transportation projects that are --
quote --
shovel-ready, says Kris Kolluri, New Jersey's former
transportation boss,
now head of school development.
KRIS KOLLURI, executive officer, New Jersey Schools Development
Authority:
In New Jersey alone, the aggregate cost of fixing schools is close
to $25
billion.
ED YARDENI, economist: This is not the 1930s, where you had a lot of
able-bodied men who were unemployed, and you could send to the
Hoover Dam, and --
and build the thing. Here, we have got a lot of people in the
services academy
that, they're not shovel-ready.
GOV. JON CORZINE: I don't buy that argument. It's true that somebody
coming
out of Wall Street probably isn't going to transfer to the long end
of a
shovel. On the other hand, it strikes me that there are -- with
two-thirds
reduction in the amount of homebuilding going on in the country,
there are a lot
of people available for these jobs.
PAUL SOLMAN: Isn't this socialism?
ROBERT FRANK: These are unusual circumstances. So, getting extra
spending
into the system really is the imperative right now. It's got to come
from
government, at rare moments like this.
If the alternative is to have people sitting idle, then we're better
off in
the long run, even if we borrow every nickel to hire the people to
do the
work.
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