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Archive for December 6th, 2008

Get your infrastructure programs in to Durbin NOW, NOW, NOW!!!!

3 comments December 6th, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama said Saturday he’ll launch a massive infrastructure program — one that will rival Ike’s Interstate Highway program of the 1950s, as soon as he becomes president and can get a plan through Congress. It’s in Politico

As I said in a column last week, it’s imperative for local communities in the Rock River Valley to get their ready-to-go-projects in to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, right now. I mean NOW.

There’s no time to wait for the pondering planners to have 16 meetings, we have to get these projects to Durbin pronto! And they have to be projects that can get underway in fewer than 180 days, preferably 90 days.

Obama warned in his radio address that states who don’t use the money quickly will lose it, because this is all about creating millions of jobs in a hurry, so that we don’t sink into another Great Depression courtesy of the wondrous “no-rules, just right” pirate capitalism policies of  the nealy departed Republican administration..


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