Thought phuckstik hated FDR.. tries to trick us make highway bill sound

[greenbriar]

like he is copying NEW deal. But don't get fooled.

His big buds and contractors will benefit NOT the people


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050811/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

MONTGOMERY, Ill. - President Bush opened the gates Wednesday for spending a whopping $286.4 billion on roads and bridges, rail and bus facilities, bike paths and recreational trails, saying the projects from coast to coast would spur the economy and save lives.

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[greenbriar]

1. yup shades of AAA, WPA ect...

Highways just don't happen," Bush said. "People have got to show up and do the work to refit a highway or build a bridge, and they need new equipment to do so. So the bill I'm signing is going to help give hundreds of thousands of Americans good-paying jobs."

[Maddy McCall]

3. It's completely different. FDR's WPA and CCC were governmental...

agencies who employed people and payed them decent wages to build parks, paint murals, collect historical data, etc.

The difference is that Bush will let huge contracts to PRIVATE companies, and the employees, whether newly hired or not, will just have to hope that decent wages trickle down to them.

Actually, this sounds MUCH MORE like Reaganomics than the New Deal. The New Deal was necessary socialism at a time when our country needed it. It was a brilliant and fortunate stroke by FDR. Bush-style measures will enrich the rich and continue to whittle away at the middle class.

[greenbriar]

5. I didn't say it was exactly like it. I am a history teacher, I know the

score.

the joke was that bushy boy is trying to copy it and fucks it up even with a blue print right in front of him

AND he hates FDR

[Maddy McCall]

9. I'm a history professor.

I know the score, too. :D

If you are a history teacher, I am sure that you are aware of the body of recent literature being written about the manner in which the right has adopted the populist lexicon--basically stolen it from the Democrats.

If you were acquainted with this recent literature, you would see that Bush is applying FDR-style populist language to a very Republican piece of legislation. It's in no way New Deal, but Bush speaking like FDR will make people think that it is. It worked with you.

[greenbriar]

14. It didn't' work with me. I may have worded it better, but that is exactly

what I was trying to portray. IT WILL MAKE PEOPLE THINK IT IS


thanks for putting in words, what I was apparently failing to do

[jobycom]

6. Good distinction, thanks.

[greenbriar]

2. he really is a dumbazz

This bill upgrades our transportation infrastructure and it'll help save lives," Bush said.

[jobycom]

4. That's exactly what I thought. Proof that Bush knows the economy is bad

He's resorting to liberal Democratic methods to fix it. Typical. Reagan did that, too, when he realized Reaganomics had failed.

[oscar111]

7. NOT new deal at all. see the re: a few above this one

see the re numbered as three in the rt hand column

FDR had gov agencies handle the money and paid decent wages.

bush lets contractors handle the money and pay whatever pennies they feel like.

[Maddy McCall]

8. Actually, I don't see much difference in this bill and his favoritism...

that he demonstrates in handing companies like Carlisle and Haliburton huge contracts.

In the past 20 years, Departments of Transportations have begun to let work to contractors that in the past was done my state employees of the DOT.

So, what you will see with this is more contracts being let to big business, with very little of it reaching the people who will be doing the actual work.

Much has changed since FDR. Mainly, the privatization of the state government through the use of contractors.

[greenbriar]

10. true

but he is trying to make it sound like he is puttin "good peoples to work"

[Maddy McCall]

13. He stole the populist lexicon.

See my post above. It's nothing new. The right has been doing it for a half a century.

[oscar111]

11. Haliburton is not an agency. Not gov at all. It is private

this re was confusing to me.
can you edit, please? for clarity.

i agree with your point however. Good point! And i love the froggy. LOL

[Maddy McCall]

12. Gotcha. I see where that was confusing.

Changed it to corporations. Thanks.

[greenbriar]

15. hope my edit makes it sound better

I do NOT think it is like the NEW DEAL, but many people will think that