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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf

Obama's economic team are not waiting. Obama plans to reveal more details at a news conference today, but word is that several hundred million dollars will be spent to create more jobs.

" Though he does not take office until Jan. 20, Obama's team of economic advisors are already working out the details of a two-year package to save or create 2.5 million jobs that could cost several hundred million dollars. "

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

From what I'm hearing there's going to be a lot of work on our infrastructure over the next 6-8 years.
Jim Cramer on "Mad Money" likes that, the stock market likes that and it'll be good for people and companies.
I've heard on CNBC that there are 600-800 bridges in the country that need to be replaced.
P.E. Obama so far seems to be a "hands-on" type of CEO who will get things moving in a hurry.
They said on the News that his administration "wants to hit the ground running" on Jan 20th.
That's good and that's what the markets want to see!

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ORIGINAL: TheUtopian

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

From what I'm hearing there's going to be a lot of work on our infrastructure over the next 6-8 years.
Jim Cramer on "Mad Money" likes that, the stock market likes that and it'll be good for people and companies.
I've heard on CNBC that there are 600-800 bridges in the country that need to be replaced.
P.E. Obama so far seems to be a "hands-on" type of CEO who will get things moving in a hurry.
They said on the News that his administration "wants to hit the ground running" on Jan 20th.
That's good and that's what the markets want to see!

But what Cramer is not mentioning is the wholesale privatization of that infrastructure. Essentially what would happen, is the US government would finance the sale of the infrastructure to various global/trans-global corporations, and they in turn would hire American workers to repair and update the infrastructure. Then they would enact a new program of tolls and user fees to travel on the roads and over the bridges.

That infrastructure belongs to the American people - Your pappy, my pappy, their pappy's before them, and so on and so on, paid that infrastructure with generations of blood sweat and tears. Now a handful of crooks from Wall Street, cloaked in white robes will re-emerge purporting to have this '' New Deal '' like solution for all our economic woes.

What we'll end up with is neo-feudalism in disguise---where the trans-global corporation replaces that of the medieval nobleman standing at the foot-bridge with his minions collecting your ''toll'' in order to pass.


In the case mentioned above - Obama wouldn't be taking on the roll of FDR.....but instead more like one closer to Herbert Hoover.







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ORIGINAL: TheUtopian
But what Cramer is not mentioning is the wholesale privatization of that infrastructure. Essentially what would happen, is the US government would finance the sale of the infrastructure to various global/trans-global corporations, and they in turn would hire American workers to repair and update the infrastructure. Then they would enact a new program of tolls and user fees to travel on the roads and over the bridges.

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What we'll end up with is neo-feudalism in disguise---where the trans-global corporation replaces that of the medieval nobleman standing at the foot-bridge with his minions collecting your ''toll'' in order to pass.

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Obama wouldn't be taking on the roll of FDR.....but instead more like one closer to Herbert Hoover.

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ORIGINAL: SummerWind

.....unfortunately it's for 500,000 people.......The government in NJ "creates" jobs every day.  In fact many of our county and state officials have multipe jobs with multiple pensions and free 100% health care for life.  When we rely on the government to create our jobs it then means they also have the power to take them away.  We become bitches to a bloated, corrupt beauracratic system of patronage.

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:  
‘A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.'  
'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.'  
'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.'   
'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years'   
'During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:  
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;  
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;  
3. From courage to liberty;  
4. From liberty to abundance;  
5. From abundance to complacency;  
6. From complacency to apathy;  
7. From apathy to dependence;  
8. From dependence back into bondage'  
 
 

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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf

Obama's economic team are not waiting. Obama plans to reveal more details at a news conference today, but word is that several hundred million dollars will be spent to create more jobs.

" Though he does not take office until Jan. 20, Obama's team of economic advisors are already working out the details of a two-year package to save or create 2.5 million jobs that could cost several hundred million dollars. "

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

Let's hope you have an administration that actually does create real jobs, jobs where the employees can again take pride in their work, for here the jobs that will be created for the benefit scrounger will be meaningless, mind bending non entity jobs, like litter picking, verge cleaning, street sweeping, graffiti cleaners and chewing gum pickers. Anything else of interest will be thwarted  by health and safety requirements and / or the need for expensive special training and  qualifications. So no mass public works of the past, no monuments to tribute man's abilities in hard times.