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March 11th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Earmarks are such a tiny, small part of the budget that it’s only handing Republicans talking points to even talk about them. Abuses have occurred, but so do they when you hand over non-earmarked money to the federal highway system, for example. Earmarks have a place. I do not believe it worthy to go jabbing at a particular few and then slam the entire system.
March 12th, 2009 at 7:18 am
Yeah.. another 5+ million for the Kennedy legacy while Social Service programs are being butchered.
March 12th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
It appears that the LRTA has about $4.5M in “shovel ready” projects approved by the State from the ARRA funds for transit systems.
http://www.mass.gov/Agov3/docs/econ_recovery/Transit_proposed_%20MPO_20090306.pdf
March 12th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Looks like Lowell’s getting squat in this. Where’s the money to help plug the hole in the City budget so things don’t get cut? This whole thing should be going to help keep people in their current jobs wherever they may be, public or private sector, and not laid off, further making things worse.
March 13th, 2009 at 7:49 am
So sorry, my mistake, those earmarks in the spending bill for the Kennedy Legacy? over 30 million.
But I’m sure there’s plenty of new long term, permanent jobs being created there.
Why do you people not correct me more often?
March 13th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Shawn, at some point your going to have to get it through your head that ALL construction jobs are not ‘permanent’. EVERY construction job ends. Construction is a market supported by individuals, private businesses and government spending on construction projects. In a down economy, the individual and private business slide slumps. So Gov’t spending on construction is in fact stimulus. The fact that it’s the government and not a private entity doing the buying doesn’t make the ‘job’ any more ‘impermanent’.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
OH, is the Kennedy legacy spending construction jobs?
Are we building permanent monuments to him now, that will cost the taxpayer 30 million?
I must have missed that.
I have always said that construction jobs are stimulus..from the beginning. I just prefer that they construct things that generate more long term economy (extended/new highways, office space, clearing old properties damaged by hazardous waste, dredging the harbor/rivers, even buiding casinos!)
March 13th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Although I agree that construction that leads to long term growth is preferred, much of that only provides a place for growth, but not the engine of growth. The “suspended” technology facility at UML could be a better opportunity. Maybe no one company can make the investment needed to spur that type of growth, combining education and technological facilities could be the catalyst for new products and/or methods of fabrication that could well encourage private capital to build on that work and fill the office buildings with wealth-generating initiatives.
On the other hand, casinos do not create wealth, they just take from one place and put it in another.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
The roads downtown all look like they are shovel ready to me. I haven’t heard a word about fixing them. I wish there was some money set aside somewhere for this.
March 14th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Heaven forbid that the visitor’s center at a National Park, or a medical building, be named after a…you know…a…that is…a….DEMOCRAT!