[traditional1]

There's no question in my mind that the "contracts" will mandate the use of Union labor, period.

Likewise, Minority Contractors will be at the forefront of the jobs for sure, too.

All in the Plan for this socialist Kenyan-born bastard who is invading our homeland capitol.

[DannyTN]

We don’t need more roads or bridges if we can afford to power our cars.

Infrastucture projects should be for energy producing projects like nuclear power plants. And limited to road construction where current conjestion is so bad that additional roads would reduce fuel consumption.

[unixfox]

I have a stimulus package.

CUT SPENDING, CUT TAXES, and every time Congress gives itself a raise the taxpayers get the same percentage in a tax cut.

Sounds fair to me!!

[the invisib1e hand]

if the trades were fat, sassy and arrogant when they had to hustle for business, imagine how they'll be when they don't...

Oy, it's going to be the '90's from Hell.

[sickoflibs]

RE “But when the federal taxpayer does the financing, everything suddenly becomes affordable.”

...and what taxpayer at what time? Obama needs to hold off taxes until all the spending is enacted. This was Clinton's dream in 1992 exactly 16 years ago and deficit mania killed it with Dole in Senate, early 1993. But democrats have GWB/republicans making all the precedents for borrowing and spending endlessly.

[unspun]

Marxists are trained to be deceitful.

[JoeGar]

If the states do these projects, they must still balance their budgets. If the Feds do them, they can deficit-spend with newly-printed dollars.

[pointsal]

What country will be supplying the steel?

[Mariner]

A bunch of deficit-funded public works CONSTRUCTION projects probably make sense at this point, given the miserable failure of the financial institutions to resist regulation...and now, nationalization.

But like others, I fear this will be a boon for Minority Owned Businesses and Unions.

White male owned, non-union construction crews will have to settle for the "trickle-down" effect:)

And there WILL be trickle down.