While surfing the internets this morning, I came upon this very interesting description of the New Deal and how ti helped us get out of the Great Depression:
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This guy shows through government statistics how the New Deal made an immediate impact on the failing economy. I hope that Obama's package will have these same effects, but I fear that it might be loaded with too much pork and wasteful spending. What we need is all of that money to be invested in the basic services that this country needs. I think that the bill should focus on three places and forget about all the others:
Rebuilding Infrastructure
Whether it is failing or not, this will create much needed jobs and put people back to work.
Investing in new energy platforms
This will help fund scientists researching new renewable energy as well as try to harness as much wind, solar and geothermal energy and turn it into usable, sustainable energy we can use everyday.
Invest in a new broadband infrastructure
Not only will this create jobs in the technology sector, it will also create jobs for working class people who will be the ones to lay the wire across the country. This will also allow us to catch up to Japan and China in broadband. It is absolutely pathetic that we are the country that invented the internet but we currently sit at 15th in the world in terms of speed and broadband penetration. I think that the internet should be like radio or TV when it comes to a communication medium. It is a fundamental right and essential to our democracy that our citizens are active engaging each other online.
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Typical liberal. All you people want is pork. Don't you know by know that the only way to help ALL people is by taking care of the obscenely wealthy. Fuckin socialist.
I think more important than rebuilding infrastructure is building what we don't have in the first place. Getting people out of their cars and into public transportation is just as important as fixing/building roads, funding education and financing sustainable fuels research. Oh yeah and there's accessible health care. We don't have that in this country. These are the things we need to focus on. So far we've only heard about the commerce aspect of our economy, but there's a lot more to it than that. It's housekeeping, and our hose is in a shitty state right now.
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