Comments on: Another WPA: Matthews suggests we work on … railroads

By: Dimsdale

Dimsdale — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:44:29 +0000

Try renting.

By: Dimsdale

Dimsdale — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:43:53 +0000

The Departments of Energy and Education would be a good start. The IRS could be slimmed d0wn with a flat tax. That is the easy stuff. A hard look at some of the NIH funded projects (and now, the so called “peer review” committees) would be apropos.

By: Erik Blazynski

Erik Blazynski — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:02:20 +0000

well this is not a horrible idea, if you are going to waste the money anyway you might as well waste it on infrastructure, which you are going to have to spend some day anyway. I support infrastructure development in this country vs. nation building in Iraq.

By: sammy22

sammy22 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:53:16 +0000

Hey donh, you should make it easier to purge the government of wasteful employment by providing some list of positions/people who should be removed.

By: donh

donh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:40:19 +0000

We already have a WPA program . The non essential personnel working in local, state, and federal jobs comprise an eternal WPA program. Too many able bodied adults are engaged in government sustained activites that fail to produce any product or service of value to society. Their work assembles no product nor provides any service that can be sold at the end of the day to recover the money payed to them in salary. They can only be paid by siezing somebody else’s prosperity . You can only have so many parasites living off of a host body without killing the host. The only solution to our problem is to purge government of wasteful employment. Take the $200,000 salaried bureocrat in the department of silly walks, hired out of political patronage, put them on a ditch digging line for reduced pay of $28,000, balance the budget , cut the costs imposed on profit making activities that add value to society, and problem is solved.

By: porschepete

porschepete — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:47:51 +0000

Hay Matthews isn’t Amtrack government supported?Like our furture
healthcare.I worry.

By: sammy22

sammy22 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:48:18 +0000

Try taking your car on EasyJet!

By: zedgar

zedgar — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:27:31 +0000

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Matthews says the Chunnel only takes a couple of minutes. Huh? The trip from London to Paris takes almost 3 hours (the underwater part is about 20 minutes). Non-restricted tickets cost $300 – $450 one way with some economy tickets available for about $110. It’s cheaper to fly – e.g., you can get an EasyJet flight for about $60 one way. Trains are neat but are not the path to economic salvation.