Shovel This
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 30th, 2009 5:33 am by HL
Shovel This
Transit is not stimulus. Sorry. If I was king, I’d spend about $200 billion for SUPERTRAINS. We could use high-speed rail lines in California, the Texas Triangle, Florida, the Midwest hub, and even Rep. John Mica’s (R-FL) ginormous D.C. to…
Poor Women are Not “Pork”
Responding to President Obama’s request, House Democrats cut a provision from the stimulus package that would expand contraceptive family planning for Medicaid patients–usually poor women and girls. He, in turn, was responding to Republicans’ opposition to expanding Medicaid family…
Why are the Feds Bailing Out the Highway Privatization Industry?
At Progressive States, we’ve highlighted the potential and actual taxpayer ripoffs hidden in the industry siren song of selling off public assets like highways. ?States gets what looks like an attratctive upfront payment, but lose in the long-term from lost…
