Mario, If Bush could "hornswoggle" $750 Billion, I don't see why Obama can't with a stroke of a pen, do the same to rescue the crumbling bridges, levees, roads, street signs so faded, they're unreadable, too! In my hometown, I always drive on I-10, because if you aren't a native, you don't know WHERE the hell you are on the local roads. The street signs haven't been replaced since the 40's! Asbury Park looks like a "shiny" beacon, compared to Louisiana!
New Jersey LOOKS better and better, every day, which is why I CHOOSE to live here! I don't care what nobody says! There should be "safeguards" in place to protect the taxpayer, who ultimately PAYS for the "mistakes" of the elected! This whole country needs help! --- In [email protected], marioa...@... wrote: > > Hope we're "shovel-ready" enough to get some of those public works funds > when they start to trickle down..... > > The Pockmarked roads of New Jersey.... 8 min. video: >>> > http://tinyurl.com/8kvdox Online NewsHour | PBS > > or text: http://tinyurl.com/98wlga > > Infrastructure Spending May be Key to Boosting Economy | Online NewsHour | > December 22, 2008 | PBS > > Excerpts: > > PAUL SOLMAN: The pockmarked roads of New Jersey, one small argument for why > America desperately needs a massive infrastructure makeover....like New > Jersey's Pulaski Skyway, a three-and-a-half-mile elevated road connecting Newark > and Jersey City built in the 1930s. > > BRIAN STRIZKI, state transportation engineer, New Jersey: This bridge is the > same type of bridge that collapsed, the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis. > > GOV. JON CORZINE, D-N. J.: We have got the engineering plans. All we need is > the money to -- and the trigger pull on go-ahead. > > PAUL SOLMAN: And it's not just transportation projects that are -- quote -- > "shovel-ready," says Kris Kolluri, New Jersey's former transportation boss, > now head of school development. > > KRIS KOLLURI, executive officer, New Jersey Schools Development Authority: > In New Jersey alone, the aggregate cost of fixing schools is close to $25 > billion. > > ED YARDENI, economist: This is not the 1930s, where you had a lot of > able-bodied men who were unemployed, and you could send to the Hoover Dam, and -- > and build the thing. Here, we have got a lot of people in the services academy > that, they're not shovel-ready. > > GOV. JON CORZINE: I don't buy that argument. It's true that somebody coming > out of Wall Street probably isn't going to transfer to the long end of a > shovel. On the other hand, it strikes me that there are -- with two-thirds > reduction in the amount of homebuilding going on in the country, there are a lot > of people available for these jobs. > > PAUL SOLMAN: Isn't this socialism? > > ROBERT FRANK: These are unusual circumstances. So, getting extra spending > into the system really is the imperative right now. It's got to come from > government, at rare moments like this. > > If the alternative is to have people sitting idle, then we're better off in > the long run, even if we borrow every nickel to hire the people to do the > work. > > > > > > > > > > **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, > Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. > (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025) > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
