More roads and bridges, huh? Where I am located, (South Jersey, Southeastern PA and Delaware) there’s enough going on. Anymore would be too much.

I was listening to an interview on my local NPR with someone from the Dept of Public Works in Philadelphia. The city replaces a specific amount of water lines every year. The cycle is about 20 years. The person being interviewed said that, technically, they could do more, but it would cause too much disruption and inconvenience to residents and businesses.

That is the drawback of too many infrastructure projects. Nobody will be able to get anywhere.

Gee, I didn’t know only black and latino workers had bad attitudes and poor job
performance.  Is there a link to that research?  Are you referring to all workers of
color, half, a few?  Are you saying that all white workers not only have good
attitudes but also excellent job performance, even those who are unwashed and
uneducated?  Well!  This explains a lot!!  You are truly wise.

No employer wants to hire a person with a bad attitude. Instead of blaming
themselves for poor performance, they stupidly blame it on the color of their skin
or ethnicity.  Give me a million of the dirtiest unwashed skids with a good attitude,
and I will turn them into loyal workers after a long hot shower.

We should link this piece with the other on the 10 worst state economys. Those facts show that the states who have lowered or eliminated taxes and regulations have suffered the most since the 1980’s implementation of “Reaganomics”. I live right next door to West Virginia, and by all conservative theory that state should be thriving. Lower taxes, almost no corporate or enviornmental oversite. Hell this place should be a repug wet dream come true. But just take a look at the facts, and you will find that in this backward state like so many others that jumped on the supply side bandwagon, the corporations have done exactly what they do, exploit the situation, take profits, move on.

People seem to have forgotten that the purpose of a corporation is to MAKE MONEY, not build infrastructure, provide healthcare and pensions to their employees, or fund the commons. THey have only done these things through a tax and regulatory structure created by the people. Our tax structure is what separates us from a banana republic. Corporate america doesn’t give shit if you and your children have to walk to work or school, barefooted, on a dirt road. AS LONG AS THEY MEET PROFIT PROJECTIONS.

A successful capitalist system REQUIRES rigid regulation and taxation.

Libtards will of course gobble it all up hoping the Messiah will eventually break out of his postmodern, Friedman-licking shell.

Either we fight for radical, social change or we will remain slaves with no one else to blame but ourselves.

WOW

Veal Pen politics at it’s finest.
Gosh am I shocked to see one more Obama/Dem apologist article get ink at truthdig.

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