Comments on: “Reconditioning the National Mall will create jobs.”

By: Jay_Cee

Jay_Cee — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:07:56 +0000

Nothing like a trillion dollar bailout to make 200 million seem like small change. Sigh….

By: Jay_Cee

Jay_Cee — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:06:40 +0000

he meant that its going to create jobs indirectly. Spruce up the national mall. Tourism goes up. Local businesses prosper.

We hear those sorts of arguments all the time from our local civic leaders. Downtown revitalizations, etc, that always end up using tax payer dollars and the local level. I’ve no idea how well they work in the end…

By: Ned Reck

Ned Reck — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:41:23 +0000

And just added my own additional comment… which is what the comment section is for, I believe.

There is no outrage at government stimulus (be it family planning, mall decoration, Acorn funding, etc.)… only at private sector spending (e.g., Merrill). To liberals… stimulus can only emanate from government.

BTW…. Rush corrected himself today… indicated the Merrill office remodeling occurred January ’08… long before TARP.

Ned Reck

By: CarlSchurz

CarlSchurz — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:09:54 +0000

But when I was working for Bechtel Jacobs as a Laborer I got 15 dolllars and seventy something cents an hour. Of course that was doing things more dangerous than landscaping.

By: $peciallist

$peciallist — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:07:05 +0000

stupid

By: $peciallist

$peciallist — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:04:49 +0000

you can’t fight the Sprinkler Union!…pic later

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:52:01 +0000

Probably more like $50 per hour and they have to kick-back 1/2 of that to the re-elect Barack forever campaign.

By: phred

phred — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:23:20 +0000

The place looked like Hiroshima.

By: CarlSchurz

CarlSchurz — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:20:53 +0000

And I garuantee you it will be over budget with half of the mall done and behind schedule. Unions love the Government teat.

They’ll probably pay the workers over 15 dollars an hour, and this sort of work is really a minimum wage job.

By: liberalrepublican

liberalrepublican — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:11:51 +0000

I heard something about this on the radio and thought is was $200,000 not $200 million.

I thought $200,000 was reasonable. Still do.

$200 million is practically criminal.

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:00:47 +0000

Take a look at this chart.
Since many Obama voters do not have jobs,
does that mean I have to pay double to cover their
share?

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/27/stimulus-you-cant-afford/

By: scottbomb

scottbomb — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:48:34 +0000

This is the problem with the government trying to “create jobs”. Once the project is done, it’s done. Government is not a business, unless it’s a communist government.

By: NightTwister

NightTwister — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:41:50 +0000

By: hmmcontrib

hmmcontrib — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:22:31 +0000

is kinda meaningless, since we are debating the government stimulus. We already know it’s not going to be private sector funds. The concern, and the line from Erick’s OP, was “He actually tries to justify it as a means to create new jobs.” The concern is the effect, not the source. We all know where the money is coming from.

If Merril Lynch’s money redecorating can stimulate the private sector, why not these funds?
Defense by Rush, no less: “Obama was angry that Merrill Lynch used $1.2 million … to remodel an executive suite. Excuse me, but didn’t Merrill have to hire a decorator and contractor? Didn’t they have to buy the new furnishings? What’s the difference in that and Merrill loaning that money to a decorator, contractor and goods supplier to remodel Warren Buffet’s office? Either way, stimulus in the private sector occurs.”
Rush even mentioned (erroneously, I believe) that TARP funds were used to pay for it. They weren’t, but he mentions Merrill spending it loaning the money out and someone else doing it. Isn’t that the stimulus?

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:18:21 +0000

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By: izoneguy

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By: elronaldo

elronaldo — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:12:52 +0000

Tug a wagon of sod down the mall. Learn to operate a Bobcat and a Ditch Witch – oh yeah, those will be outlawed because they are not CAFE compliant so the skill will not be re-marketable. They are telling us what they want the tax-paying future population to look like! Beware!

I am thinking seriously of applying for a grant that will help folks (regular folks) discover how easy and profitable it is to set up an online business (growth is slow when you begin… no way around that… but it doesn’t start to grow until you start it). Teach about downloadable products and products you don’t have to inventory (greener!) and how to manage and plan so revenues are sustained into retirement – then you have the revenue and not a big retirement plan balance for them to raid. Can’t tax what you haven’t earned yet… (better be careful here – they have already figured out how to tax the air we breathe)

The maybe slip in some education about how to do it all offshore so that taxes are not due until you repatriate the profits you must spend now – and then it’s only on funds that you need for consuming – so you end up being taxed on what you consume and not on what you make.

In today’s electronic world, electronic globalization is possible even for the tiny guy.

Wonderful!

By: m1garand

m1garand — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:11:32 +0000

I wonder if all those unemployed AIG and BoA workers will be on the end of one of those shovels??

By: woodsman

woodsman — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:10:12 +0000

they are liberals. By the time they get done spinning the story, it will be about creating jobs and providing more soothing support for pedestrian feet and how government is looking out for the little people.

Oh, yeah… the grass is green too, so that helps! Now the reasoning for this makes sense.

And to think we have four more years of this to look forward to.

By: Scope

Scope — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:05:13 +0000

First, I give Gibbs little time as Press Secretary, he is spinning Obama talk, but he is about as excitable and inspiring as paint drying on a wall. I know he’s new and “change” but he is not effective, and is actually portraying the ineptitude of Obamas presidency. The grass planting on the Mall will become a national treasure to the scene where Obama, the first black president, was annointed.