who's a true believer this morning about Obama's plan to save us from the great financial crisis of the 21st century - something about the formation of a Civilian Conservation Corps-type program. It was from a post at DU, and the poster was just effusive in his praise for this bold idea.

Now I know everyone's been talking about such a program for a long time, so this isn't new. The devil is in the details, as usual.

Maybe those details will be forthcoming. Next step? Implementation.

Ah, where were these folks back in January? I think we'd have a different democratic nominee if they'd vigilant about voter fraud back then.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/09/a...

I love this job!

I watched Bush's address on the state of the economy the AM with the sound off. CNN had the Stock numbers in the corner of the screen. As Bush spoke the numbers kept dropping. Could someone just lock this guy in a closet until Jan 20 at noon?

Whoops. No link. Sorry. I even went there to try to find it. Good grief.

Boy, those people are, um, prolific.

Here.

It's from a WaPo article.

The newest element of his proposal was the establishment of a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank, which would spend $60 billion over a decade to rebuild deteriorating roads, bridges and waterways. Obama said the spending would generate 2 million new jobs, many of them in a construction industry that has been hard hit by the housing market downturn.

implementation. The creation of 2,000,000 new jobs is certainly attractive, but Michigan alone has lost over 400,000 jobs since 2002, mostly in auto industry and related fields (according to a recent article in Crain's Detroit).

Bring back some manufacturing jobs. Hubbie thinks thi will happen as China becomes less attractive; iow, the cost of doing business becomes greater. From talking to manufacturing people around the state, he thinks it's already happening.

Something's gotta give.

for approved Village projects-- like war, spying, and unaccountable Pentagon projects that don't work.

Especially if it's over a fricking *decade*. Man-o-man, we really have our priorities screwed up. We've spent nearly a trillion buckaroos on Iraq in the past 5 years and all we get for infrastructure is a lousy $6 billion a year.
What we need to hear is a real reorganization of how we will run our country. Obama is coming up short.
Come together at The Confluence

don't the networks have to offer McCain the option of a 1/2 hour if he wants?

the Equal Time rule. If he *wants* to buy a half-hour, he can. (If I was a network guy, I'd want the payment in cash.)

We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

about exploiting Black Tuesday, or is that feeling considered just picky, now? I feel another Philadelphia race speech-type dealy coming on.