Obama Pushes Infrastructure Overhaul to Create Jobs, Boost Efficiency

So what was the stimulus for??

It is real nice that everyone in this country is in construction according to our almighty President. Let not mention that all of the Americans on Socila Security are not going to get an increase for the second year in a row, and don't for one minute think that the cost of medical coverage and drugs has not increased, as millions do without to stay alive. And the great healthcare bill( not really) won't take effect until 2014 leaving another 3 years before (if the bill would really work) without any relief from the ongoing health care costs. And then there is ERISA a law Congress passed, much like healthcare, with many loopholes, that currently allow insurance companies to rip off the disabled, another group on fixed incomes. This law has no rules or guidleines in regard to long term disability insuracen policies giving insurance comapnies carte blanc. Go to youtube and see the video's by disabledvictim and learn how you or a loved one can become this laws next victim!

Tenderlies1, On this one I agree with you, The day gas hit $3.00 is when business started to tank. Filling one's tank has a cumulative effect on the slow draining of available cash from a budget. It also was a psychological point where people began to think things were get tight. GAS WAS MANIPULATED,but these manipulations were allowed to go on long enough to start in motion the rapid decline in the economy and the crashes that followed...in my opinion. These speculators of gas futures may have been blunted if the light of day was shone on them earlier. Is it not coincidence that when Bush announce the lifting of off offshore drilling ban the speculation and $5.00 gas stopped shortly after. And conversely when gas dropped to $1.50 a gallon and below in the height of the financial crisis, I think this help to blunt the free fall of the market because the public got a temporary psychological lift from the seemingly impending doom. Here's something that the left can do to help the economy ...for now, back off your insane objections to more exploration and development of on shore(ANWR)and any other states that want to invite exploration....If I was king for a day,I would determine it was a question of national security and suspend all bans tomorrow. We would save billions upon billions... by not buying mid east oil...some that COULD go to the democrats pet programs and some to paying down the debt directly......but I guess this make too much sense and the congress is not inclined to do anything that makes too much sense, at least as it stands right now.

Obama pushes infrastructure overhaul as voters cast ballots to throw out the tax and spend dumbocrates. Why is "print more money" their solution to everything? Calling America's system of roads, rails and runways "woefully inefficient" Obama admits that he is trying to re-define inefficientcy. He proposed a multi-billion-dollar program to completely finish bankrupting America before next months elections. The program, the president noted, would not add to our deficit over time, but would rather add to the deficit now in an attempt to get his dumbocrates in congress re-elected to spend even more trillions of dollars they had printed up in the white house basement. An initial $50 billion investment (on top of an estimated $60 billion already allocated towards infrastructure), which would be the first step in a six-year plan to bankrupt America. "Real people" will be "getting out there" and voting them out of office November 2nd.

I have been involved in many of these Post and all have a different idea of where all this started. Does anyone remember the FUEL CRISIS? Does anyone know what it actually hit the hardest? All freight or at least the bulk of it moves by Diesel, diesel is a by-product of refining Gasoline, it is the waste product of that. The price of diesel went way beyond the price of out top grade gas. Heating oil followed by Natural Gas as well as propane up as well. People got scared, groceries out the roof , item's thet were used every day up. People quit spending they quit traveling, they stopped trading cars and buying new furniture and we quit eating out or taking vacation's Today diesel is still higher than the top grade of gas. This was never adressed by Goverment and Big Oil was making astronomical Profits while many here were struggling to keep fuel to get to work everyday eventually business's were closing, many small ones closed. Look around they still are and we are still hanging tight because we are scared of the economy.

Clearly spending is a big issue here. Unlike the first stimulus where money was paid to businesses, this one will directly create jobs. With more jobs, more money will be spent in businesses. The businesses will then use the profit and the stimulis money to mmake more jobs

Here's a picture for us. We buy "cheap" Chinese goods at Wal-Mart. The Chinese loan this money to Obama. Obama spends it. Now our children/grandchildren get to pay it back, plus interest, to the Chinese. So those Chinese goods are not very cheap, are they? Figure they are actually costing us twice the listed cost, plus interest, plus the lost jobs. Buying these foreign goods is facilitating our own financial destruction, aided by our clueless representatives in Washington.

crumbling infrastructure. Where is the tax is money that is collected that is already supposed to go towards this. How many more toll booths are going to be put up. The issue is why do we need a bill to do this? The reason is because of the way that the money already LOANED to the gov't is being spent.

Obama is wrong in his approach. The first stimulus, passed because we supposedly had $800 billion in shovel ready jobs that needed to be done, has not yet been totally spent. How many longterm jobs were created. Now Obama wants another stimulus for infrastructure, but wasn't that what the first stimulus was for? The current power in DC tells us that small businesses and corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars, and not using the money for expansion and job creation. On the other hand, they want a $30 billion bill passed to give to small business owners so they will start hiring. How can there be trillions being hoarded, but the taxpayers still need to increase our indebtedness and give another $30 billion to businesses? There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to what is occurring in DC, we seem to be going nowhere even though we are now trillions in debt, and chaos seems to be the ruler. Did Obama supporters not listen to what Obama was saying on the campaign trail? He told you what he was going to do, you see what you got for your money. Is this REALLY what you want for our Country?

The first thing we need to do is STOP spending billions in the middle eastern countries and other countries around the world then the funds we need to improve and expand our outdated rail system,corrording highways and bridges and other infrastructures around our country would be available. It certainly didn't take us long to put millions of aide into Hatti while there are still Katrina victums waiting for assitance from our government 5 years later???? Who made us keepers of this world,other big countries don't do what we do.