Federal funding to replace outdated bridges, freeways and railways would jump start the economy. The construction trades are facing a shortage of skilled workers after the Great Recession. So this issue will need to be addressed as the same time. Doubt that will happen. The Republicans killed the Import-Export Bank earlier this year and Boeing announced that they are moving 500 jobs from the U.S. to Europe.
They wouldn't be able to pay for this purely out of tax revenues already collected. It would require printing money and sending checks against money that hadn't been in the economy yet.
Just repeal the Bush/Obama tax cuts and restore $4T in revenue over ten years to the federal budget. That will fix the current budget problems, as the tax cuts were never funded with corresponding budget cuts. Cut the defense budget in half, which is four times larger than the militaries of the next ten countries combined, to fund this proposal.
America's infrastructure is falling apart. Bridges, freeways and railways need replacement. REBUILDING AMERICA are the jobs that we need the most to jump start the economy. All the Republicans have to do to fulfill THEIR 2010 CAMPAIGN PROMISES on jobs is to fund the Infrastructure Bank that President Obama proposed.
They moved the job and he couldn't bicycle or bus-ride to get there anymore.
Not everyone in America has a car. My last car died two years ago from a blown head gasket and a broken piston. I've been taking two local buses and the express bus to my job that is 30 miles away. Even if I had a car, taking public transit is a lot easier than driving that a stretch of freeway hell.
I know a married couple who were perfectly fine having two kids. The third kid came along after the condom broke. Because of their religious upbringing, abortion wasn't an option. The husband got himself neutered to prevent another accident. A third child kept them on the financial edge for a good number of years, even with help from family and friends.
I ate a lot of rice and beans when I was unemployed for two years (2009-2010). I couldn't qualify for food stamps because I got unemployment benefits. After unemployment benefits ran out and my savings exhausted, I filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011. I still didn't qualify for food stamps because I found a part-time job weekend that paid more than minimum wage. Tough luck, the social worker told me and hung up. Fortunately, I found a full-time job and continued working the weekend job for the next year to get myself out of the hole.
If you pay attention to the conservative comment boards, the Obamaphone is almost always the iPhone (the ultimate status symbol). Like the side of beef, case of wine, and caviar that single mothers with ten kids get with their EBT cards.
With baby boomers retiring and the tax base (workers) growing smaller over the next 20 years, taxes have to go up to pay for everything else as Social Security/Medicare consumes two-thirds of the federal budget. You better plan on paying more than your fair share if you're still in the middle class.
You can be working a full-time job or two to pay rent and gas, but have very little left over to feed the kids every night. You need help, so you turn to the government. But a full-time job will disqualify many people from food stamps and most public assistance programs. So you stand in line at the local food bank. Some people don't do that because they don't think of themselves as being poor or down on their luck. That's tough luck.
I'm still waiting for the Republicans to introduce the jobs bill that they promised in the 2010 campaign. After 50+ votes on Obamacare, they still haven't introduce a jobs bill.
Or put it this way: A 0 GB iPhone would be throughly useless, so it wouldn't sell for $200, it would sell for near zero.
Actually, that would be a voice-only phone and those are typically "FREE" with a two-year contract. Before I switched to an iPhone 5C last year, I got voice-only phones whenever my contract renewals. The iPhone is the first phone I ever paid for.
The 1970's were awesome! The FBI asked my mother about the tall, tomato-less tomato plants that my bother grew in the backyard and she insisted were tomato plants (they weren't). The Hell's Angels and the sheriff department had a brawl down the street that brought out the fire trucks and news media. Firecrackers were sold on every street corner no matter how many roofs caught on fire.
I have a former roommate who still responds to emails that I wrote 15 years as if I sent them yesterday, still hateful from what happened back then and unwilling to let go because that's all he has now. He's trapped in a prison of his own making, unwilling to ask for help because he doesn't want to be free.
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It's the screeching of freeloaders that can't think shit through.
Yeah, I watched the Republican presidential debate last night as well. ;)
Federal funding to replace outdated bridges, freeways and railways would jump start the economy. The construction trades are facing a shortage of skilled workers after the Great Recession. So this issue will need to be addressed as the same time. Doubt that will happen. The Republicans killed the Import-Export Bank earlier this year and Boeing announced that they are moving 500 jobs from the U.S. to Europe.
They wouldn't be able to pay for this purely out of tax revenues already collected. It would require printing money and sending checks against money that hadn't been in the economy yet.
Just repeal the Bush/Obama tax cuts and restore $4T in revenue over ten years to the federal budget. That will fix the current budget problems, as the tax cuts were never funded with corresponding budget cuts. Cut the defense budget in half, which is four times larger than the militaries of the next ten countries combined, to fund this proposal.
America's infrastructure is falling apart. Bridges, freeways and railways need replacement. REBUILDING AMERICA are the jobs that we need the most to jump start the economy. All the Republicans have to do to fulfill THEIR 2010 CAMPAIGN PROMISES on jobs is to fund the Infrastructure Bank that President Obama proposed.
The rest of the world has a better health care system than the U.S.
They moved the job and he couldn't bicycle or bus-ride to get there anymore.
Not everyone in America has a car. My last car died two years ago from a blown head gasket and a broken piston. I've been taking two local buses and the express bus to my job that is 30 miles away. Even if I had a car, taking public transit is a lot easier than driving that a stretch of freeway hell.
I know a married couple who were perfectly fine having two kids. The third kid came along after the condom broke. Because of their religious upbringing, abortion wasn't an option. The husband got himself neutered to prevent another accident. A third child kept them on the financial edge for a good number of years, even with help from family and friends.
I ate a lot of rice and beans when I was unemployed for two years (2009-2010). I couldn't qualify for food stamps because I got unemployment benefits. After unemployment benefits ran out and my savings exhausted, I filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011. I still didn't qualify for food stamps because I found a part-time job weekend that paid more than minimum wage. Tough luck, the social worker told me and hung up. Fortunately, I found a full-time job and continued working the weekend job for the next year to get myself out of the hole.
If you pay attention to the conservative comment boards, the Obamaphone is almost always the iPhone (the ultimate status symbol). Like the side of beef, case of wine, and caviar that single mothers with ten kids get with their EBT cards.
With baby boomers retiring and the tax base (workers) growing smaller over the next 20 years, taxes have to go up to pay for everything else as Social Security/Medicare consumes two-thirds of the federal budget. You better plan on paying more than your fair share if you're still in the middle class.
This is socialism at it's absolute worst!
No, that's the price of living in a civilization.
You can be working a full-time job or two to pay rent and gas, but have very little left over to feed the kids every night. You need help, so you turn to the government. But a full-time job will disqualify many people from food stamps and most public assistance programs. So you stand in line at the local food bank. Some people don't do that because they don't think of themselves as being poor or down on their luck. That's tough luck.
If you QUALIFY for public assistance, use it. If you DON'T QUALIFY for public assistance, work harder and stop grumbling about those less fortunate.
"Eventually you run out of other people's money."
Wall Street didn't get that memo, as they still expect taxpayers to bail them out of the next financial crisis.
so we end up with a class of lazy grumblers who get angry when they don't have what their neighbor does
*cough* Donald Trump *cough*
Where do I sign to get my FREE government-issued iPhone (a.k.a., Obamaphone)?
I'm still waiting for the Republicans to introduce the jobs bill that they promised in the 2010 campaign. After 50+ votes on Obamacare, they still haven't introduce a jobs bill.
Why not give everyone buckets of cash? The U.S. is the richest country in the world with a Chinese credit card.
Only if you qualify. Otherwise, tough luck.
What's In Your Hand? The Shadow Knows
FTFY - Link below for the /. youngsters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow
Most of them zombies do the same thing over, and over, and over again, without realizing the emptiness of their action
We're discussing Apple iPhones, not last night's Republican presidential debate.
Or put it this way: A 0 GB iPhone would be throughly useless, so it wouldn't sell for $200, it would sell for near zero.
Actually, that would be a voice-only phone and those are typically "FREE" with a two-year contract. Before I switched to an iPhone 5C last year, I got voice-only phones whenever my contract renewals. The iPhone is the first phone I ever paid for.
As Client Eastwood once said, "A man gotta know his limitations."
Absolutely. George W. and I have moved on. Other people, not so much.
The 1970's were awesome! The FBI asked my mother about the tall, tomato-less tomato plants that my bother grew in the backyard and she insisted were tomato plants (they weren't). The Hell's Angels and the sheriff department had a brawl down the street that brought out the fire trucks and news media. Firecrackers were sold on every street corner no matter how many roofs caught on fire.
I have a former roommate who still responds to emails that I wrote 15 years as if I sent them yesterday, still hateful from what happened back then and unwilling to let go because that's all he has now. He's trapped in a prison of his own making, unwilling to ask for help because he doesn't want to be free.