Obama calling for more infrastructure spending

apnews.myway.com ^ | September 6, 2010 | JULIE PACE

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

"How dare anyone question me? Who let Fox News up front?

[savedbygrace]

There is an extremely touching and inspirational story from many years ago involving a group of North Korean Christians and “Nearer My God to Thee”.

Is that what you’re referring to?

[spokeshave]

rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads; constructing and maintaining 4,000 miles of railways, enough to go coast-to-coast; and rehabilitating or reconstructing 150 miles of airport runways,

Some counties in CA are digging up asphalt roads and going back to gravel....has lower maintenance costs..

In any case...why we need all this infrastructure...we all going to be riding around on Al Bore's wooden bicycles...

[silverleaf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMx-cA96ZVI&feature=related

final moments on the Titanic

[Flag_This]

"we all going to be riding around on Al Bore's wooden bicycles..."

That's ridiculous! They'll be recycled plastic bicycles - wood is sacred.

[silverleaf]

Not to worry friend

America has the best Congress money can buy

[spokeshave]

"That's ridiculous! They'll be recycled plastic bicycles - wood is sacred."

Problem is...plastics are from petrochemicals....and there is no electricity to run the recycling plants...much less materials to build any.

[RnMomof7]

Funny I thought that was the first stimulus was for.. but then the pork took over...

[Flag_This]

"Problem is...plastics are from petrochemicals....and there is no electricity to run the recycling plants...much less materials to build any."

Yeah, but these are "recycled plastics" so it's all okay. The electricity will be generated from bio-diesel made from rendered-down conservatives and other political opponents.

[Chode]

gotta love that 0bamacare...

[exDemMom]

9. Mice, Alcohol and Drugs ($38,000): Studying the impact of alcohol and methamphetamines on mice and rats.

So, the only project that has actual tangible benefits gets barely any funding at all, while other projects that are nothing more than make-work for the purpose of making it look like something was actually done for the money get millions.

Typical of liberals: no real understanding of how the real world works, and no desire to understand, either, in the quest to try to make it work differently and thereby achieve utopia.

If anyone is wondering how studying addiction in rodents is a worthwhile endeavor, the premise behind such a project is that the process leading to addiction can be studied in a controlled population, with the long term goal of understanding the biological basis behind such addictions in order to develop effective therapies. It is common to use animal models to understand human disease.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

They’re insane.

[Thunder90]

In states with Dim governors, the governor’s name is on the board as well, with images of the states DOT logo on it. In Illinois, Patrick Quinns name appears on all of the boards. Here in WI, Jim Doyle’s name appears on it.

[livius]

You’re right. The anti-capitalist puppet shows, funded by our dirty capitalist money, definitely take the cake.