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- This is going to sound presumptuous but most of my thread to infrastructure comes from my investments over many years in what I think will be an explosive subject on Wall Street. The stocks I have put my money in are Fluor, General Electric and ADSK, a software company that assists in building.GE has done very well but my original 100 shares, $10,000 investment in FLR has seen a split and pays dividends and has appreciated. New York City will have to be built in the underground and bridges redone. China is a gargantuan project and I think these companies if they do not already have contracts will soon be engaged. Hiring blue chip companies as engineers is one thing but preserving our bridges and tunnels and sewer systems and internet comes down to having the funds to run a our infrastructures efficiently. We have to redirect the excessive and unwarranted spending and realize the importance of this issue over otherless implicating items.
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- The Money spent in ONE Year of EITHER of these wars would repair ALL infra- structure in the US...Do The Math...BILLIONS A YEAR FOR EACH WAR
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- How about instead of building infrastructure in Iraq and Afghanistan we do it in America?
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- The Bridges are starting to look great in Ohio and KY. Stimulus dollars are at work cleaning, repairing, and painting the bridges. Good to have a President that actually spends money on the United States.
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- World super what?
I have lived in 'socialist' western Europe for 7 years now. We're nowhere near what they have. Yes, the atheist Europe takes care of 'the least ones of you' as instructed in the bible. They don't worship money like we do and they have very stable political systems.
America is becoming the very thing it's fighting in the Middle East- a religious state. Yes, America is no different from Iran. America is another like Iran, a religi - Reply to this comment
- crumbling roads, need to be maintained. cars are not going away.
we need to make a better kind of cement, we need to developed a more easily replaceable road.
we need to assess taxes to road users. people should file a road usage plan before they get on the road. a transponder based gps system could map the path of every car to a 99.99% accuracy. the cars would devide the cost of road usage fairly.. government users would be held responsible for productivity verses government wast.
It could set new ways of managing speed limits and that speed is safe and effective.
tax exempted businesses would pay road costs from their effective revenue product quotient..
everyone pays. the same per foot of road travel based on vehicle weight and acceleration deceleration g-force from turning. it all destroys the asphalt and stresses bridge structural stress points.
but a side effect is that you could monitor traffic lights and judge your speed and lane position based on your prognosticated arrival time at the traffic signal controlled intersection.
i have thought about this subject for many years. this system is the only way.
and nobody wants to pay for jet commuter's runways. thats much less than 1/1000th of the population of the usa. let the planes that use the runways determine ware and tare depending on specific aircraft and touchdown impact pressure verses weather wind and skill. - Reply to this comment
- A lot of the stimulus money still hasn't been spent that this is what it should be spent on.
You don't spend money just for the sake of creating jobs. Workers should be hired and paid to do something that is actually useful to the greatest number of citizens. - Reply to this comment
- IKE reduced the military demands for $$$ & built the Interstate system -all since have been too weak to take them on....new stuff is funded in Israel,Iraq & Afghanistan though...
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- This is where the stimulus money last year should have gone, not to green jobs and jobs like studying ants and turtles. We have incompetents in Washington. Progressives now run Washington, and they are dreamers. Many may be nice people, but most are ideologues. During hard times, we can not afford to spend efforts and money dreaming - we need practical solutions from experienced people. During times of high employment and prosperity, we may entertain dreamers to some extent.
This is not the time. Remember this in November. Remember to elect practical people to positions of leadership. We can afford more social experiments from extremists. We are in trouble, and we must elect those who will reduce the federal government to a manageable size and remove some of the burdens off businesses and taxpayers. We have to allow the private sector to create jobs and prosperity. We have to bring the federal government back under control of the people.
I want to see a balanced budget amendment, no more riders on bills (every bill should stand on it's own and any representative that votes on an unread bill should be fired), and more state control. Here is an example of state control: The federal government educates no one; states educate. There is no reason to send education tax money to Washington, just so they can take a cut to pay an army of bloated administrative bureaucrats and return a portion of the money to states. The federal government should be out of it. Let the states keep all the education tax money for teachers and children. There is no justification for the federal Department of Education. This is "change" that brings "hope". We must start moving this huge ship in this direction. - Reply to this comment
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Interesting figures about taxes. Here is some info about wealth.
Data suggest that wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small number of families.
The wealthiest 1 percent of families owns roughly 34.3% of the nation's net worth,
the top 10% of families owns over 71%,
and the bottom 40% of the population owns way less than 1%.
This information is from the Survey of Consumer Finances sponsored by the federal reserve board. and this was from 2004. We all know that the gap between the rich and the rest of us is even greater now. - Reply to this comment
