Obama Pledges Massive Public Works Project

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Money spent to positively affect working men and women here in the USA as opposed to invading countries to pay international crony contractor buddies in the military/industrial/complex.

That's a change in the correct direction.
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Obama Pledges Massive Public Works Project
By PETER BAKER

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama committed Saturday to the largest public works building program since the creation of the interstate highway system a half century ago as he seeks to put together a plan to resuscitate the reeling economy.

“We need action — and action now,” he said in an address taped for broadcast Saturday morning on radio and YouTube.

The address followed the latest grim economic report indicating the country lost 533,000 jobs in November alone, bringing the total job loss over the past year to nearly 2 million. Although Mr. Obama remains weeks away from taking office, the report ratcheted up the pressure on him to assert leadership during the interregnum before his inauguration.

Mr. Obama and his team are working with Congressional leaders to fashion a spending package that could invest hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy. A big part of that would be infrastructure projects such as building or repairing roads, bridges, schools, sewer systems and other public utilities. Democrats hope the new Congress that takes office in early January could pass such a measure in time for Mr. Obama to sign almost instantly after taking office Jan. 20.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/us/politics/07radio.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1228569048-Bx0r32zmnpgWPJtNLTOXTw


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1. Change! Lets hope his plans aren't weighed down w/rubbish from the 'pukes! n/t