Posted on 12/10/2008 1:59:33 AM PST by ComputerGuy
Roads and bridges! What joy. Last week's announcement by President-elect Barack Obama of his massive public works initiative to stimulate the economy won loud applause from me. Not only does the decaying U.S. infrastructure need emergency attention but construction commissions will be far more substantive and enduring than the half-mythical 5 million "green" jobs that Obama was airily promising before the election.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Texas needs major roadway construction to relieve some of the congestion. This maybe part of the answer and I know some of the local gov. already have many projects lined up to take advantage of Obama’s projects.
When she said she knew Barack was not a left wing Socialist, but then turned around and praised Progressivism, Camille showed the reader(s) only one thing, she lacks the ability to admit what her true political Ideology truly is all about... SOCIALISM.
I know she’s a lib, but I like her columns though. Well, most of them.
Will somebody please explain to me what it is in this context that could possibly merit our time and attention in anything that Camille Paglia has written? One illustration, she excoriated Dick Cavett for criticizing Sarah Palin on matters of style. Did she forget that only a few paragraphs earlier she praised Barak Obama for his style, "As an Obama supporter and contributor, I've been very gratified by his dignified deportment and steadiness at the helm to date."
didn’t we already toss an assload of money ($200b+) at our highways and roads just a couple years ago, right around the beginning of bush’s second term?
Get off the Obama is our savior idiocy and get back to REALITY!
She really rambles in this piece. Must be some good sh!t in town.
..If you find out where it is, let me know...
Maybe her lesbian fantasies were interjecting themselves?
I used to know, before I forgot, that is.
225,000 jobs expected to be lost on Wall Street and Obama proposes handing them all a shovel.
The US Infrastructure is among the best in the world. This General is fighting the last war, and even then, the strategy did not work.
FDR was the architect of the Great Depression - turning a recession into a major event that lasted a decade - every time the economy began to recover on its own, he would get the urge to ‘do something’ and send unemployment skyrocketing... again and again.
Neo-Keynsian ‘solutions’ which have been proven to be failures are the wrong solutions for this crisis. But Americans want their President to ‘do something’. So the nitwit runs to put out a small fire with gasoline.
He is already off to a magnificent start by publicly saying that ‘things are going to get a lot worse!’ - the absolutely wrong thing for a President to say. In fact, something he should never, ever say. The dummy is supposed to talk up the economy, or SHUT UP!
http://www.mises.org/rothbard/agd.pdf (America’s Great Depression by Murray Rothbard. Free downloand.)
“Must be some good sh!t in town.”
Well, maybe we need to get some of it so we can understand her better, eh?
Roads and bridges! What joy. Last week’s announcement by President-elect Barack Obama of his massive public works initiative to stimulate the economy won loud applause from me. Not only does the decaying U.S. infrastructure need emergency attention but construction commissions will be far more substantive and enduring than the half-mythical 5 million “green” jobs that Obama was airily promising before the election.
Yes the Nations roads in many States are abysmal. There is a great need for repare replacement and new roads.
But before we jump on bord and agree to mortgage our great granchildrens future with a few more TRILLION dollars of debt lets ask WHY are our roads in such bad shape.
For decades we have been paying roads use taxes to the Federal and State Governments. Gas taxes, tires taxes, toll taxes and on and on.This was supposed to be used to upkeep our roads? Why wasnt it? Where did it go and why? If we are burdened with more taxes what gaurantee this time do we have that the money will actually be used for what it is intended for?
Like a duck pond in Berkeley, CA?
In Chicagoland, it seems that every highway gets rebuilt and expanded almost every summer.
“Obama missed a golden opportunity to link his public works project with a national revalorization of the trades. Practical training in hands-on vocational skills is desperately needed in this country”
He can teach them those skills after they get sent to prison.
Who's going to build them? We're told constantly that Americans won't do these sort of jobs. This sounds like a stealthy angle for amnesty.
This “massive public works initiative” is all union jobs. There is no heavy construction that is not unionized. If Obama’s non-unionized voters think they are getting jobs, they are nuts.
Where is Obama going to find 2.5 million American workers trained to do this sort of work?
If not trained for more than pick and shovel work, how
many intercity and other freeloaders will actually apply for this make work project?
Will we see illegal workers on these projects?
The reason we have illegals coming here now is because
most Americans don't like hard dirty low paying jobs.
Whats going to make people change their attitude after
Jan 20th, force?
This Obama jobs solution will fail miserably without
actual use of forced compliance. Forced work compliance is not going to make for a lot of happy campers in the freeloader community. All the yelling, hooting and screaming in low places is going to be fun to watch.
Yes, that is the lordly Yale that formed Dick Cavett's linguistic and cultural assumptions and that has alarmingly resurfaced in the contempt that he showed for the self-made Sarah Palin in "The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla." I am very sorry that he, and so many other members of the educational elite, cannot take pleasure as I do in the quick, sometimes jagged, but always exuberant way that Palin speaks -- which is closer to street rapping than to the smug bourgeois cadences of the affluent professional class. English has evolved, and the world has moved on. There is no necessary connection between bourgeois syntax and practical achievement. I have never had the slightest problem with understanding Sarah Palin's meaning at any time. Since when do free Americans subscribe to a stuffy British code of veddy, veddy proper English? We don't live in a stultified class system. In the U.K., in fact, many literary leftists make a big, obnoxious point about retaining their working-class accents. Too many American liberals claim to be defenders of the working class and then run like squealing mice from working-class manners and mores (including moose hunting and wolf control). What smirky, sheltered hypocrites.
I heartily agree with these comments, though Paglia is not everyone's cup of tea.
The funny thing is if you read the comments about her article in Salon, those on the left act like she is the second coming of Jesse Helms. Because she has the nerve to criticize Hillary or defend Palin, the Left hate her.
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