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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:37 AM Original message |
Is the media getting serious about talking about infrastructure? |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:40 AM Response to Original message |
1. Just think about all the immediate jobs that could be created with big infrastructure projects.... |
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JustAnotherGen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:41 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. And it's worked before |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Great. It had to come to almost complete disaster before they woke up |
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FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 08:20 AM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Prelude to Corporate take over of America's infrastructure |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 08:25 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Not from what I am hearing. But I know what you are saying. |
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JustAnotherGen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:40 AM Response to Original message |
2. Not just you! |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. A good friend of mine (a social worker) said that people only make needed changes |
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MH1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:43 AM Response to Original message |
4. I hope, but won't hold my breath |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:47 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. It took a long time because they were in denial. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:47 AM Response to Original message |
6. About time |
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Jim__ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
8. How would the government fund infrastructure jobs? |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:53 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. There would have to be a revolt within the Republican Party. |
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Wounded Bear (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
10. Paid for how? |
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JustAnotherGen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:57 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. I'm okay |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 08:19 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Well, ask John Kerry. He's leading this charge and he knows Congress pretty well. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
11. This media? The one we have now? Serious about anything substantial? Huh? |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 08:21 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. They get serious only when their butts are seriously on the line... |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 08:12 AM Response to Original message |
14. This sort of thing almost funds itself |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 08:23 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Exactly what Ezra Klein was saying when he laid out his idea. |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 11:50 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. I have always gotten my best raises |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 11:55 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I remember when interest rates were way high my mother telling me |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
20. There is a multiplier effect like nothing else with public works jobs |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-11 09:20 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Such a no brainer |
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