How would infrastructure spending benefit the working class?

[drcha]

Thanks for enlightening me. I was not sure what infrastructure has been planned. I'm pretty sure it won't help the people at the bottom who voted for him very much.

 

[Maverick74]

Thanks for enlightening me. I was not sure what infrastructure has been planned. I'm pretty sure it won't help the people at the bottom who voted for him very much.

Of course it will. I don't see any guys volunteering to leave Wall Street and do something that actually might cause them to sweat. Nobody wants those jobs except the poor. All the "cool" kids want to work in silicon valley and all the assholes want to work on wall street, you know provide liquidity to the world and all that good nature stuff. Salt of the earth them folks are. LOL.

 

[Martinghoul]

Marty, come on now. The infrastructure spending is pretty small. It's 100 billion a year over 10 years. Shit, we practically already do that now overseas. I'm not sure I understand the controversy over this. Hell, I admit most this trivial bs goes over my head as most seem to enjoy shouting at the rain even in the middle of desert at high noon without a could in the sky.

Yes, in which case it's so small it's not even worth discussing... I mean 0.5% of GDP is hardly going to make any difference, especially given the format.

BTW, where did roads come from? A lot of the infrastructure I heard was "tech infrastructure" as in providing broadband internet across the entire country. Also mass transit (badly needed). I don't think I have heard a single person mention "roads". I could be wrong.

The Donald has specifically spoken about "roads and bridges" and "hospitals and schools" on the campaign trail. Obviously, it might have just been one of those things, y'know?

 

[Maverick74]

Yes, in which case it's so small it's not even worth discussing... I mean 0.5% of GDP is hardly going to make any difference, especially given the format.

Hence my question as to what the controversy was. Marty, we can't have a thread on ET without controversy.

 

[Martinghoul]

Hence my question as to what the controversy was. Marty, we can't have a thread on ET without controversy.

Well, there is a contradiction in there somewhere, as I am sure you're aware... But yeah, in the grand scheme of things, it's all one big happy family.

 

[Maverick74]

The Donald has specifically spoken about "roads and bridges" and "hospitals and schools" on the campaign trail. Obviously, it might have just been one of those things, y'know?

Marty, let me offer you a civics lesson. Most of our "roads" are built with state funds and gasoline taxes. Bridges, yes, is more Federal in nature. Hospitals? Seriously? This country has more hospitals then Saudi Arabia has sand. I have heard airports mentioned and I do agree almost all US airports are complete dog shit. Marty, we have no shortage of roads in this country. Rail, airports, broadband...yes. Hospitals and roads? Come on. Where in this country do we have a shortage of either one of those? It's a serious question.

 

[drcha]

We definitely have a shortage of roads in Seattle. Need to chop down the whole forest and cover it with roads!!

 

[Martinghoul]

Marty, let me offer you a civics lesson. Most of our "roads" are built with state funds and gasoline taxes. Bridges, yes, is more Federal in nature. Hospitals? Seriously? This country has more hospitals then Saudi Arabia has sand. I have heard airports mentioned and I do agree almost all US airports are complete dog shit. Marty, we have no shortage of roads in this country. Rail, airports, broadband...yes. Hospitals and roads? Come on. Where in this country do we have a shortage of either one of those? It's a serious question.

Why are you posing this question / offering this lesson to me? I am only mentioning the specific items described by a certain gentleman who is now your country's President Elect.

Are you suggesting that the American people elected to the highest office in the land a person who requires the sort of education you're offering? Or, alternatively, are you suggesting that your President Elect, knowing all of the above, intentionally misled the audience?

 

[newwurldmn]

Why are you posing this question / offering this lesson to me? I am only mentioning the specific items described by a certain gentleman who is now your country's President Elect.

Are you suggesting that the American people elected to the highest office in the land a person who requires the sort of education you're offering? Or, alternatively, are you suggesting that your President Elect, knowing all of the above, intentionally misled the audience?

Maybe he thinks you are actually trump? Are you?

 

[Maverick74]

Why are you posing this question / offering this lesson to me? I am only mentioning the specific items described by a certain gentleman who is now your country's President Elect.

Are you suggesting that the American people elected to the highest office in the land a person who requires the sort of education you're offering? Or, alternatively, are you suggesting that your President Elect, knowing all of the above, intentionally misled the audience?

No, I'm saying he used the word infrastructure and the media automatically assumes that means roads. The main infrastructure projects he mentions the most is re-building our airports. I have heard him mention roads generically but it's a minor part of the plan.

http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-bu...ion-infrastructure-plan-welcomed-10607320.php