Could Infrastructure Spending Save the Economy?

[captinseperoth]

throw out the some 12 million illegal immigrants,and create 12 million jobs! so easy,pond scum can figure it out.

[sinfulANGEL999]

For myself,it's not really so good. I mean,it's a finacial relief!!! Economics for presidential politics. For the president it's not a good thing for everyone,if you put money in wrong banks,they steal them. Right?

[ourearthhome]

Sure infrastructure spending could help but the little known and less discussed downside is that all infrastructure increases land value. The economic effect is that all landowners and especially the big monopoly land/natural resource owners ultimately are enriched if their increased land value is not taxed away to pay for the infrastructure. Federal and State spending funded by anything other than taxes on land value is pure subsidy to landowners the big ones who hide behind little homeonwers.

[dehountinge]

Yeah but it goes beyond, because you put people to work, the workers that build the infrastructure get paid and then spend, stimulating their local economies, then the infrastructure whatever is built creates jobs, ex some facility, a dam to bring more water to a town, green energy whatever creates jobs then you have more people working and spending, that is the idea behind building infrastructure..

[simongbb7]

The infrastructure in the US sucks. No high speed rail, roads falling apart, air traffic nightmares, congested roads. It's pathetic.

[BlutundBod3n]

Lol... how is that???¡¡?? Lol, no high speed rail, roads falling apart, air traffic nightmares, blah blah blah. Wasn't tha United States Of America a part of the first world? Lol..., you're aaaaaaaaaall lies! Lol Scheiße

[diggersstory]

The public servants we trusted have trashed our house and more are wanting to be elected.

[stone1home]

Without rebuilding an economy with at least a 20 to 25 percent manufacturing base, the US economy is sunk. The manufacturing base has currently shrunk to 9 or 10 percent.

[hasatum]

There would be no "bridges to nowhere" if conservatives were consistent and voted down budgets for this stuff, voted down taxes, voted down corporate welfare, and let the market work the way it's supposed to. I'm tired of free markets getting blamed for the economy. Banks got into this business only because CEOs thought they'd get bailed out or were looking for more mergers. The government helps a problem to occur and then offers more government as the solution. This is ridiculous.

[kerouacbukowski]

yay sanity!

[HomoGeneyes]

CONSERVATIVES, OWN FAILURE!

[HomoGeneyes]

BLACK MONDAY won't be much of a RECORD BREAKER or will it?

Is the WORLD thinking?