by waiting 2 years to propose major infrastructure spending which is needed and was needed 2 years ago. more later in upcoming column in the series of how

DEMS DON’T CARE ABOUT THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS

You might see the entire DoD budget red-lined to fulfill your expectations.

but not in order to fund bad Obama policy with those saved dollars.

If Obama is going to go for broke, as it were, no way the Dems want to abet the sight of a unified group all groaning and shaking their heads at once. It makes the “we told you so” attitude all the more supportable come 2012.

I only hope the Republicans don’t fall for the faux group hug mentality which always blossoms on the Left whenever the Democrats lose power.

how much crow can a lib eat before he vomits? answer: not enough to get reelected! so much for triangulation. the libs can’t get off the crack!!!

And here all this time I thought Obama was going to pull a Clinton and work with the GOP congress to balance the budget. Thankfully, all is well. The President is still wandering around in left field, which means we will win in 2012.

IF the President wants to spend on needed infrastructure fine :

Redefine the Prevailing wage to market based wages, not union wages, including an unemployment factor that would lower costs during high unemployment.

Require streamlining permit processing and anyone doing such processing must have their wages and benefits adjusted to market wages and benefits (aka, no more defined benefit plans for bureaucrats).

Cut out cornahol subsidies and use the saving to support infrastructure.

Eliminate Cap & Tax and cut green subsidies in a reasoned fashion, promote nuke power and other energy development. Use any revenue from federal energy leasing to support infrastructure.

Education spending — hah, that’s a bad joke. Promote charter schools, add some common sense to educational credentialing so retired folks with lots of expertise can pass on their knowledge and perspectives without a lot of red tape & BS while also making teach wages and benefits more market sensitive. Require any recipient of Fed Ed funds to have market based (401k) retirement plans by X date and outlaw defined benefit plans. Make retirement benefits match social security age.

In other words if this stuff is needed, make some sacrifices to get the job done while also promoting development of policies and marketplaces that will help (not hurt) general welfare of the nation.

I kept reading this on all the sites today and kept thinking I am going to have to write a diary and say STOP! and include “did you not hear us” and well I got lazy and didn’t do it and you of course did it quite well.

What does he think Americans are going to hear? does he think that we will say well of course spend more that is the problem. Does he think that we don’t realize the BILLIONS (787) in the so called stimulus was spent on this trash already and created NO JOBS! Does he think we are daft? I welcome his ideological stupidity because this means he will indeed be a OTP (one term President).

I wasn’t gonna go there, but y’all made me do it.

The image of ‘somebody’ getting chased with a rolled-up newspaper including ‘somebody’s’ heavily audible whimpering, and the occasional “um”, “er”, and other stammering because a TelePrompTer doesn’t move with ‘somebody’ that fast……

Cross that with what (supposedly) once happened there with a flying ashtray, makes one really wonder what goes on in that building when nobody’s looking.

Actual infrastructure construction would not begin for 2 years.
Beyond that – I think he is crazy and this will INFLAME all of the deficit hawks = the TEA party.
Spend, spend, spend is all the dems know how to do.
The repubs need to give the clear message that public spending robs from the private sector and slows growth. Govt IS the problem.
No doubt the unions and young people and the TAKERS will love it. Nothing like bribing the TAKERS with tax $$ stolen from the MAKERS.
obama will be forcing the GOP to continue to be “the party of no”. I guess there is a method to his madness. Thank goodness the GOP has control of the House……. or we would be truly doomed.

You can spend MONEY on OIL RIGS/WELLS, OIL REFINERIES AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS.

On the condition that Donald Trump is the project manager and NO UNION LABOR……………………..

He really didn’t get the message, did he?
Better for us, bad for the country.

This just seems so stupid (i hope I can use that word). I can’t really believe he plans to present such a plan. That must be some silve tongue he’s got, because I don’t know who else could sell more spending at a time like this.

Can he just replay his speech from last year? Isn’t always ab infrastructure spending and green jobs and energy/climate legislation that never happens?

Super Bowl commercial on Youtube and had to share it. I LMAO but a lot of people don’t like it. Too bad the liberal weenies at Fox won’t run it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luyGmcVMoAE

Infrastructure, do we not spend billions every year at state & federal levels for upkeep and improvement? Plus the atrocious Stimulus?
Education? Give me a drink, when haven’t we increased spending, and where is the payoff?
Standard boilerplate, brain dead liberalism, and just the stuff that got Hawaii Obama in trouble in the first place. You can see the brilliance[?] of Axelrod and the others on this, plus the plaudits of the loons over at the Times.
The Chief Jerk is following orders, obedient dope that he is.

It’s no BURGER and FRIES for you Obama.
Toss no ice cream in there also.

All the money that has been wasted over the decades could have had the infrastructure of this country properly maintained, replaced or upgraded.

I know from experience if there is debt, you do without until the debt is paid off. Bare necessities only. We as a people and nation have forgotten what frugality and thrifty ways mean.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. ~~Elmer Davis

I am stone forged from the fires of creation into flesh ~~Pamela1631

The greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.~~Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret.)

The Concord Project: Fighting for Freedom in the Fall

afrter so something like 100s of millions in state and fed. support for many, many years? It will keep a factory open in China. Is it one where workers are chained to the production line and are virtual and sometimes real slaves to communism?
I don’t think it’s a good pr message for the SOTU speech.

….who got $1.4 billion from the feds for not putting reflectors in part of the Mojave, tried to put them in another part and now is being sued by the nuts who want to protect the …..desert tortoise. Question is: does Bright Source get to use some of the $1.4 billion in defending the lawsuit by the conservo-whackos? RFK, Jr. was on Bright Sources’ side (probably as a deal to keep windmills away from Hyannisport).