Sunday, December 28, 2008

The Public Works Stimulus

I saw in the paper the only projects Linn County came up with, for the economic stimulus package list of projects, supposed to put the country back to work en mass, proposed by Obama, once he's President, were a few resurfacing jobs. Paving. How in the world would that in any way stimulate the economy over here? Put a couple road crews to work? Probably county road crews at that.

The excuse from the commissioners is the projects on the list must be ready to go for 2009. Maybe that's a good excuse.

But I don't think there will be much economic stimulus going on here in Linn County as a result. Paving a couple of roads. Yup, that'll do it.

In the meantime, our governor is drooling to raise taxes, like on vehicle fees and gas, to do something, not sure what. All it will do for most people is make us poorer, I think.

1 comment:

  1. If you actually read the article you would know that those were the only projects that met the requirement to be something that could be done in 2009 and did not need lengthy reviews or environmental evaluations.

    I doesn't matter anyhow. Peter DeFazio (D- Union Thugs) has already told us that he got funding to retrofit our bridges. That was long before Obama was crowned and has nothing to do with the "stimulus."

    Even with the "stimulus" most of that money is going to go for good old Pork. Bridges to Nowhere for everyone. Besides, with it going to construction projects that means Union members and illegals. Wsith no plans to check immigration status on these projects we might not stimulate our economy much be we'll probably stimulate the hell out of Mexicos.

    My suggestion was to start a State/Federal project using the land that Pepsi was going to build the bottling plant on in Albany.

    We could have a huge works program. State workers could dig holes and then the Federal workers could fill them in. We could mandate the use of shovels in order to maximize the number of jobs and minimize the carbon footprint.

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