what i've been ranting about the past week(s) or so.. http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_standard_of_living_bubble_and_why_its_about_to_go_pop/ Any comments on how our standard of living will be lowered with heroic moves like that "rescue bill" that rescued us from consumer un-confidence? Stimulus packages, health care, NEW INFRASTRUCTURE - i've been hearing about that one a lot recently isn't that a true LOL'er.
Why is new infrastructure a LOL? You like driving over bridges that are unsafe? According to a report card released in 2005 by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 160,570 bridges, or just over one-quarter of the nation’s 590,750-bridge inventory, were rated structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. And then there are aging water and sewer systems, dams, levees, roads, etc. Isn't your safety important to you?
hahahhahah. i'm honestly laughing right now. You want it all don't you, we need it all. We need as much from the government as they can give "Constitutionally allow through the general welfare clause". Isn't it ironic that when the federal government finally begins thinking of things it's actually granted power to do, it's so far in debt from researching bear DNA in Montana that it becomes impractical? Where's this money coming from kaethy? We haven't reached anywhere near the bottom of this economic storm yet and now we need to reach ourselves more into debt to repair some roads and fix some damn sewers?! I don't think many people will be driving when there's no work left. But hell the government funded construction crew will be up bright and early at the crack of dawn to fix our roads LOL
I just do not see how the government can sustain the deficient we have and the increase that Obama is proposing. Spending has to be cut not increased.
The money is supposed to come for the tolls and gasoline taxes. The US needs to start funding nuclear plants, wind farms, natural gas trucks so that we aren't sending billions abroad to buy foreign oil. THe US also needs to improve the infrastructure of the Missisippi waterway so that we can increase exports. The money can be recouped by user fees.
Well, in the year 2000, Iraq had decided that it was no longer going to accept dollars for oil being sold under the UN’s Oil For-Food Program and decided to switch to the Euro as Iraq’s oil export currency. The result was a military strike by the U.S. and it’s allies and subsequently in ample time the dollar was restored as Iraq’s oil export currency. So US economy will fully collapse if US started any alternative against oil
Keeping the dollars in America will benefit the US a lot more than transferring wealth to the Middle East.