Jobs -- Infrastructure -- President Obama -- solution.

[Ineeda]

Great (short) article by Kevin Drum at Mother Jones states the obvious:

<snip> The American Society of Civil Engineers agrees. In their most recent report card, they gave our solid waste facilities a C+, our bridges a C, our rail a C-, our energy infrastructure a D+, our dams and schools a D, and our roads, levees, and inland waterways a D-. Nothing got an A or a B.<snip>

more: http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/09/trillion-dollars-infrastructure

[leveymg]

1. 2/3 of the economy is service sector - jobs creation needs to be, as well,

or you leave a lot of people out when all the money goes to construction companies.

[liberal N proud]

2. As goes our infrastructure, so goes our economy

Fix the infrastructure, you will see the economy in all areas rise.

[WCGreen]

3. Yep...

and they can't outsource the jobs...

[Fumesucker]

4. Which is why it' s unlikely to happen, they can't outsource the jobs..

:shrug:

[Uben]

5. Oh, they can outsource anything......

...don't kid yourselves. It all depends on who can come up with the most bribe money for our congressmen in the name of political donations. Republicans and dems alike. Why don't we make our congresspeople take lie-detector tests to see if they have ever taken any money for a quid pro quo. I doubt there is one that could pass.

We have the technology to change things with polygraphs. Publicly hang every congress member that fails for treason.