It was interesting to watch Rachel Maddow interview a Republican. She is upset there is not enough infrastructure in the stimulus package, and the Republican said there should not be any. Infrastructure requires the hiring of hundreds of thousands of people to fix the roads, bridges, electrical grid, water and sewage treatment plants and all the rest of our aging infrastructure. That would create jobs, and more jobs would also be created to support the infrastructure orders.
It is stated $2 trillion is needed in the next five years to make everything up to date. The US has ignored infrastructure for too long.
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