Bfgrn
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What a fucking dipshit you are.Yes it is. The spending for the project ends. And depending on what it is you are left with a white elephant and nothing more.Obama s stimulus package 5 years later Dems defend Republicans ridicule - Washington Times
When are liberals going to understand that spending taxpayers money on public works projects is not the answer to our economy. These are short term boondoggles that go to Congressional districts where senior Democrats have the seat. Conservatives, however, must get off the income tax cut trip that they are on. We do not manufacture big ticket items in America anymore. If an individual gets a tax rebate and goes out and buys a washing machine, refrigerator, microwave, television, computer, etc. it stimulates the Chinese economy when factory orders go up. JFK's tax cut of 1962 was a success because orders went up for American factories due to the fact these big ticket consumer items were manufactured in the USA.
Public works projects and infrastructure spending is NOT short term. Tax cuts are short term.
How many airports to nowhere do we need? What economic value do they provide?
Libs are incapable of thinking beyond Stage One.
Holy fuck. Is there anyone who is more stupid then you? Infrastructure is the foundation of COMMERCE. It is what separates first world nations from third world jungles.
Hey MORON...if it takes a week to deliver goods and produce to your local market, vs one day, which goods and produce will have a HIGHER cost to the end user?
So tell me pea brain...what economic value does commerce have?
What is "infrastructure"? Do you mean highways? Yeah, those have been built.Bridges? ALready built. Most of the infrastructure that is economically useful has already been built. Building bridges to nowhere and airports that service no one is not economically useful. Please tell me you understand this concept: that not all infrastructure projects offer return on their investment. Please.
More than just highways and bridges.
Infrastructure refers to the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. It can be generally defined as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide a framework supporting an entire structure of development. It is an important term for judging a country or region's development.
The term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, such as roads, bridges, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, and so forth, and can be defined as "the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions."
Viewed functionally, infrastructure facilitates the production of goods and services, and also the distribution of finished products to markets, as well as basic social services such as schools and hospitals; for example, roads enable the transport of raw materials to a factory. In military parlance, the term refers to the buildings and permanent installations necessary for the support, redeployment, and operation of military forces.
And highway and especially bridges need to be RE-built, updated and expanded as population grows. Any area where there is gridlock is in need of updating. Gridlock COSTS everyone money. Not just wasted fuel, but wasted time and a drag on commerce. Every hour a semi filled with goods sits on a highway, the COST of those goods goes UP.