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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
What I saw with my boots on the ground helping spend the stimulus money and from what I saw all around, the stimulus money was spent fixing infrastructure that needed fixing. When government spends money on infrastructure like road improvements, university buildings and bridges it allows the nation to conduct business.
Therefore it is good.
In my experience, generally it appears that when Ds control the government money gets spent on infrastructure. When Rs control money gets spent on tax breaks for upper income entities.
For myself I prefer spending money on infrastructure.
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If those are the only two choices, I might agree.
I might prefer not spending on either, especially if its money we don't have. Does your definition of "infrastructure" includes the fledgling "green energy" field?
You must have seen different stuff than I did. "Shovel-ready" meant that the project was ready to go with no further engineering etc. In this area, that limited it to repaving of roads period. No repair/replacement of bridges, no added lanes to crowded highways. Mill and repave only. I spent a lot of nights testing on such projects.