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busy work jobs?
Investing in rebuilding the infrastructure that is long overdue is busy work?
Investing in a national broadband network or clean energy technologies...areas that the US is whoafully behind Europe, China, India.....is busy work.
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Depends on what you are rebuilding. There's a section of highway on my commute to work with perfectly good pavement, no potholes, no bumps to drive over, that somebody decided to be ripped up and repaved. There's no structural problems with the stone/gravel layers under the road because all they are doing is running one of those asphalt munching machines to tear up the old pavement and put in new asphalt. I can't find the project on the recovery.gov website or the NY State Dept of Transportation website so I can't figure out who is paying for that busywork boondoggle. I hope it's not Obama.
I don't think it's the government's business to be building a broadband network either. If one of the broadband companies see a business opportunity they will build one. They did here ten years ago, and this isn't exactly big city territory.
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How to pay for it...Ending the TEMPORARY Bush 01 annd 03 tax cuts on the top bracket would more than pay for it.
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Raising taxes to pay for another Obama giveaway program is not an acceptable option.
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The libertarian notion of "letting the economy sort itself out" is a recipe for both short and long term economic stagnation or worse. It has never worked and certainly wont in a global economy.
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The liberal/socialist programs to redistribute income don't work either and can bankrupt the country. Taken to the extreme, there's no reason for anybody to work since the government will give you everything you need to live.
There's a quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson that I like
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from
those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.