Obama to Call for Major Road, Rail and Runway Spending

unlike the president however... i have a budget to work with and i realize that now is probably not the time for such spending

An economic downturn, especially one hitting the construction sector is the best possible time for such spending.

Originally Posted by Tribesman

An economic downturn, especially one hitting the construction sector is the best possible time for such spending.

Did you miss the fact that part of the $789 billions was 'supposed' to take care of the infrastructure and construction concerns?

So if that didn't work, why, oh why throw good money after bad?

[GoldenRivet]

What tribesman appears to not understand according to his quote there... is that one thing that is really going to bring this economy back is consumer and investor confidence.

right now there are a lot of people who are upset about the exorbitant government spending we have seen over the last couple of years.

we need to go into savings mode. we need to create more jobs by not taxing the absolute HELL out of businesses.

think about all of OUR jobs over in China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Mexico... if you want to know the story of America, read an effin "made in..." tag on virtually any product.

we need to be giving businesses and industry a reason to bring those jobs back to our shores and/or create new ones.

but unless you want to take it up the rear as a business owner - it is in your best interest right now to shrink your operation - not grow it!

[antikristuseke]

For production jobs to come back to the states another thing needs to change besides taxes, that is the wage expecations of people, as it stands it is cheaper to produce crap elsewhere due to workforce costs. That is not likely to change though unless the wage expecations grow to be on par with those in the states.

we need to create more jobs by not taxing the absolute HELL out of businesses.

Didn't you recently exagerate your business taxes by a massive amount here to make it look like you were getting really badly screwed?
Such episodes do not add much reliability to your claims about taxing the hell out of business.

think about all of OUR jobs over in China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Mexico... if you want to know the story of America, read an effin "made in..." tag on virtually any product.

So is that an issue of low business tax or incredibly low third world wages?

Did you miss the fact that part of the $789 billions was 'supposed' to take care of the infrastructure and construction concerns?

Don't you mean that a part of it went towards starting to tackle some concerns which badly need addressing?

Watch and see the coming wave.