The real issue is not Michelle Bachmann, but the thousands of people who voted and were willing to listen to her (and we cannot really say that she mislead people as the depth of her intellectual capability was clear as much as who she was and represented.)
This incident will be most likely like that of Minneapolis in 2007. Fix this particular bridge, but never mind the others. Never mind thinking that by fixing these bridges (and other) infrastructures unemployment could be alleviated greatly. Firstly, by the construction workers directly involved and secondly by the induced consumption by those workers (e.g., buying lunch, new clothes, new cars)... I think it is called multiplier effect 🙂 It sounds simplistic, but that is, in a nutshell, how the real "stimulus" spending works. Somebody needs to explain this to the GOP... and to (most of) the Democrats.
So, Brian, tell us, what do you think they are...
Do you think that they should be operated by private companies which would make users pay tolls? If so, this thinking would put the price of the toll on the highway to Key West to pretty close to infinity. There are some services the cost of which needs to be born by the entire society otherwise it would not be provided.
The real issue is not Michelle Bachmann, but the thousands of people who voted and were willing to listen to her (and we cannot really say that she mislead people as the depth of her intellectual capability was clear as much as who she was and represented.)
Many more of the artifacts that were held in Baghdad ended up destroyed or looted and sold who knows where after the US "liberation" in 2003.
While Mesopotamia is the cradle of Western civilization, it took one of its off springs to set such civilization back few centuries.
This incident will be most likely like that of Minneapolis in 2007. Fix this particular bridge, but never mind the others. Never mind thinking that by fixing these bridges (and other) infrastructures unemployment could be alleviated greatly. Firstly, by the construction workers directly involved and secondly by the induced consumption by those workers (e.g., buying lunch, new clothes, new cars)... I think it is called multiplier effect 🙂 It sounds simplistic, but that is, in a nutshell, how the real "stimulus" spending works. Somebody needs to explain this to the GOP... and to (most of) the Democrats.
So, Brian, tell us, what do you think they are...
Do you think that they should be operated by private companies which would make users pay tolls? If so, this thinking would put the price of the toll on the highway to Key West to pretty close to infinity. There are some services the cost of which needs to be born by the entire society otherwise it would not be provided.