Comments on: Shovel Ready Indeed http://blog.heritage.org/2008/12/11/shovel-ready-indeed/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:14:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Your Tax Dollars At Work « SLO Homeless http://blog.heritage.org/2008/12/11/shovel-ready-indeed/#comment-12031 Your Tax Dollars At Work « SLO Homeless Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:31:43 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/2008/12/11/shovel-ready-indeed/#comment-12031 [...] For example - [...] [...] For example – [...]

]]> By: richard salome, Norm http://blog.heritage.org/2008/12/11/shovel-ready-indeed/#comment-10967 richard salome, Norm Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:27:44 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/2008/12/11/shovel-ready-indeed/#comment-10967 We the people are beleagured by career bureaucrats at all levels of government. They all seek "pork" for their regional constituents to retain their elected offices, salaries, medical and retirement benefits. Our new president had better set infrastructure requirements that any proposal for dollars must meet, and appoint an informed watch dog committee to sift out the irrelevant garbage. But first and foremost, his administration has to show us how this infrastructure rebuildilng can be done without farther increasing the national debt. The proposal does not make sense to an old timer with "don't buy it if you can't pay for it" mentality (right out of the last depression). We the people are beleagured by career bureaucrats at all levels of government. They all seek "pork" for their regional constituents to retain their elected offices, salaries, medical and retirement benefits. Our new president had better set infrastructure requirements that any proposal for dollars must meet, and appoint an informed watch dog committee to sift out the irrelevant garbage. But first and foremost, his administration has to show us how this infrastructure rebuildilng can be done without farther increasing the national debt. The proposal does not make sense to an old timer with "don't buy it if you can't pay for it" mentality (right out of the last depression).

]]> By: Tom Wald http://blog.heritage.org/2008/12/11/shovel-ready-indeed/#comment-10849 Tom Wald Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:25:57 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/2008/12/11/shovel-ready-indeed/#comment-10849 Bicycle-related projects arguably have a higher return on investment than publicly funded facilities for private motor vehicles. Simply listing these expenses as "bicycle-related requests" does not address whether or not these are less efficient uses of public money. Private motor vehicle use is heavily subsidized by government at various levels while more cost-efficient modes of transportation, including public mass transit, are argued against by supposed fiscal conservatives. Bicycle-related projects arguably have a higher return on investment than publicly funded facilities for private motor vehicles. Simply listing these expenses as "bicycle-related requests" does not address whether or not these are less efficient uses of public money.

Private motor vehicle use is heavily subsidized by government at various levels while more cost-efficient modes of transportation, including public mass transit, are argued against by supposed fiscal conservatives.

]]> By: Shovel Ready Indeed « Conservative Thoughts and Profundity http://blog.heritage.org/2008/12/11/shovel-ready-indeed/#comment-10830 Shovel Ready Indeed « Conservative Thoughts and Profundity Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:38:28 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/2008/12/11/shovel-ready-indeed/#comment-10830 [...] Continue reading . . [...] [...] Continue reading . . [...]

]]> By: Cory, Minnesota http://blog.heritage.org/2008/12/11/shovel-ready-indeed/#comment-10815 Cory, Minnesota Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:28:20 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/2008/12/11/shovel-ready-indeed/#comment-10815 That's not the only forms of pork. In my state, the city of Duluth, Minnesota is seeking millions for public housing projects, such as new flooring, new kitchens, and updated appliances. Someone's apartment is not infrastructure unless I'm driving a truck through it. That's not the only forms of pork. In my state, the city of Duluth, Minnesota is seeking millions for public housing projects, such as new flooring, new kitchens, and updated appliances. Someone's apartment is not infrastructure unless I'm driving a truck through it.

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