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By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyIn a Labor Day speech in Milwaukee, President Barack Obama will call for $50 billion in government spending to spark a six-year public works plan focused on improving roads, rail transportation and airport runways. White House officials said the money would be used to rebuild 15,000 miles of roads, construct and maintain 4,000 miles of railway and rehabilitate or reconstruct 150 miles of airport runways. The White House says the plan would create jobs in the short term, and that it will work with Congress to find ways to pay the costs without increasing the deficit. One possibility would ...
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By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyI feel your placement anxiety, Michelle, and add in my own melancholy symptoms of the seasonal disorder for which there is no flu shot. When children go back to school in the fall, a young mother's thoughts turn horrifyingly to a time in the future when the kids will no longer come home at the end of the day. The little darlings skip three, four, out the door, faster than you can buckle their shoes. ...
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