Obama $447B Jobs Plan Has $105B for Infrastructure

Well everyone that is able to write to their politicians. Because should this Plan(President's Obama's) Pass it would possibilly mean lots of work for the construction field! But Like always polticians can take for ever or water the Plan down so much that it would be totally different when and if passed.

Here's an excerpt from the Republican Party Home Repair Manual: "If the roof has a leak, just put a bucket under the drip. We'll do repairs once everything has caved in."

Here's an excerpt from the Democrat Party Home Repair Manual: "If the roof has a leak, just replace the roof. You can pay for it with a credit card."

"obama said the entire $447 billion would be paid for" ...... the lies and our national debt continue to increase exponentially. Socialism always fails when they run out of other peoples money to spend. Cuba voted for change in 1959.....our path has been remarkedly similar.

spend another half trillion....when your already bankrupt it makes perfect sense. liberalism is a mental disorder.

this guy is more clueless & dangerous than jimmy carter

Do you want more money for construction or not? I don't see the republicans coming up with anything that would put the 15% + construction folks back to work.

"construction folks" are not going back to work until the private sector starts up again. The government cannot be the only purchaser of construction services for this to happen. we just spent $800B in last "stimulus" package on construction and that really did nothing for construction folks, did it? when will you liberals realize the government is broke and too large. get the government out of our lives, out of our pockets, & out of regulating every last thing, ... then the private sector will get the economy going.

What's new and different here? The first "stimulus" was for $787B, $130B of which was going to be spent on construction. ENR and supposedly the construction/engineering industry wa enthused about this infusion BUT WHERE DID THE OTHER $657B GO? We need to support jobs that result in hard assets and that's an easy sell but we need to avoid the economic smoke and mirrors that Congress and the Administration foist on the [taxpaying] public in the name of "jobs" that don't produce anything. Those in Washington, D.C., whether they're Republican or Democrat, don't seem to get that!

Another $ half trillion towards the intentional destruction of America. Even tom ichniowski from the propaganda wing (enr) of obamas socialist party cant find kind words for this failure.

When one looks around at highways, bridges, waterways, airports, seaports, railroads, health care facilities, National Parks and Recreation areas, dams, schools and libraries, it is easy to see what Americans value. These facilities were once the substance of what made this nation great and an example to the world of what a successful democracy could accomplish. Now, these things are in disrepair, substandard, or non-existant. We close more and more military bases everyday not because we don't need them, but because we cannot afford them. I see weigh stations on my local Interstate that are rarely open more than a few days every few months, and rest areas that are simply closed because we cannot afford the up-keep.

What was once the envy of the rest of the world has begun decaying. And where we once had the biggest dams and buildings, airports and seaports, now even tiny places like Singapore out shine us. China claims our heritage not only by it's own construction projects, but by buying our infrastructure.

The idea of Federal spending programs is that it is our money...yours and mine. It's always been that way, and the Feds give back the tax money they collect where it is deemed to be needed most. The highways and bridges, schools and parks and prisons are things I enjoy and like using or know of their need, but I recognize that there are many Americans who do not want our money spent on these things. They want lower taxes so they can get more money to spend on audio/video equipment, cellular gizmos, Ford Pick-ups that no one would ever take on a jobsite or farm for being so expensively fancy, and other consumer excesses.

The Federal Government has as part of it's responsibilities the construction of all of those facilities I mention, or to at least pay huge portions thereof. So when they talk about spending money on construction, this is money that has always been spent by the Government on these types of Projects. Trolley Lines, Subways, bridges and Interstates water and wastewater treatment plants are all Federally funded, and so are railroad construction, airport and seaport construction. Prisons, healthcare facilities, schools, local courthouses, fire houses and police stations have Federal dollars--our dollars---in them. Having worked on constructing treatment plants, tunnels, highways and bridges, hospitals and schools, I know where tax dollars do lots of good.

What would you rather have, good highways and bridges, good ports and airports, hospitals and schools, or a cooler cell phone or two? Growing up, I always remember two policemen in every car. Now that rarely is seen, and is usually one fellow, and he's stretched thin. Or the firehouse and the firemen therein, and the fire trucks: who do you think pays for them, General Motors, Amazon or EXXON/Mobile?

Of course not. It's the Federal Government to a large or small degree. It is unbelievable to me that Americans, especially Republicans, are so self-absorbed that they would rather haveless taxes and more and more consumer excesses and fewer of the things that matter. Who did some of the writers think paid for the American way of life? The corporations? Corporations want to pay less taxes than they do now, and in their paying fewer taxes, they keep me from having better roads and bridges, better firehouses and trucks and trained firemen, they keep schools at the brink of disaster and threaten to lay off teachers because there is no tax revenue to keep the police and fire , teachers and public works guys on the payrolls.

We get what we pay for, and as Americans, we need to understand that if we are unwilling to pay for these things then we do not deserve them.

All of those things made this country great: all the highways and Interstates, the giant bridges, the huge national parks, the seaports and airports where the goods of the world come and go. Our schools and teachers, the public health folks and trashmen, police and firemen with their apparatus and vehicles would be missed beyond belief if we went a single day without them.

If we spend the money, real people will have jobs, things will improve where the money touches the infrstructure.

I don't believe the Republicans are so ignorant to not understand that we as a nation are no more than what we put into the infrastructureof our Nation, whether it's the military or the schools.

Maybe they should quit worrying about giving large corporations tax breaks, or banks and insurance companies more tax breaks. They are not going to build these infrastructure projects and certainly are not going to freely contribute to them. They use these things as much if not more in some cases than anyone else. Corporations need to be made to help pay a fair share for all of our infrastructure since their tax dollars are considerable and they use our Nations resources. They want to say give them a tax break and they will hire

Ken... if you're gonna write a long comment, you need to put it in your local newspaper (as an op-ed). (I keep mine fairly brief; it's the 2nd one listed.) You are preaching to the choir on these comment sections, so almost everyone already agrees with you.

There is an incessant right-wing wacko, who posts multiple times in certain blogs (incl this one). He will never accept any suggestion or analysis by a democrat (even if the democrat says "grass is green"). These people are in their own world... so you have to simply roll your eyes and move on.

Obama's "plan" reeks of political manipulation. Let's contemplate a couple of simple facts supported by recent evidence: A large chunk of federal money designated for "jobs" and "stimulus" does NOT make its way into public infrastructure improvements and it's extra shallow thinking to accept the crumbs passed down to our industry given the trade-offs and real cost in terms of government growth, deficit spending, an unsustainable debt load, and further damage to the economy. We need to look at the big picture and the long term. Obama's "plan" does none of that. If we embrace this nonsense, we're screwed.

It's you frog huggin liberals who believe "grass is not green". After all it requires weed killers, & fertilizers, & irrigation, & men with trucks, who have jobs, to cut the grass with those evil lawn mowers which destroy your ozone, which destroys the planet, which serves as your God. Nope...grass is not green.

It is my hope that workers on publically funded jobsites have all completed OSHA safety training. There are seven states (MO, NV, NH, NY, RI, CT, and MA) that have state laws on the books requiring all workers on such jobsites to complete the OSHA 10 hour construction course. Safe workers have fewer accidents and save us tax dollars in the long run.

I did not see many go back to work under the last stimulus. Only roads got repaved no matter what the condition. States took easy way out to get the money. I was in concrete industry and lost my job. All he is proposed was to be completed under 1st.

Infrastructure Bank, Public /private investment projects supported by Bond issues for State projects, A National Energy independence Plan utilizing Natural Gas resources, Co-operative Engineers at local, state and national levels to ensure progress, not obstruction in processing Construction. People who have jobs do not need more money in their pockets until we have a much lower un-employment rate. Jobs not additional benefits

Wasn't this already talked about since the beginning of his elections and the last stimulus didn't even do anything for construction where did all that money go?? I'm a construction engineer I didn't see any new jobs created at all. The article said thousands jobs will be created we need millions not thousands.