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26 Oct 2011, 9:15 am

Who came up with the idea that infrastructure spending could create Jobs and put money in people's pockets and create demand I don't think it was Keynes/FDR because I think the idea has been around for a lot longer ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure



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26 Oct 2011, 9:43 am

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Who came up with the idea that infrastructure spending could create Jobs and put money in people's pockets and create demand I don't think it was Keynes/FDR because I think the idea has been around for a lot longer ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure


The ancient Egyptians. Look at all those pyramids.

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26 Oct 2011, 10:06 am

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Who came up with the idea that infrastructure spending could create Jobs and put money in people's pockets and create demand I don't think it was Keynes/FDR because I think the idea has been around for a lot longer ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure


The ancient Egyptians. Look at all those pyramids.

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A pyramid is not an example of infrastructure spending. it's more an example of corvee labour. Inrastructure spending itself goes from what I know as far back as Roman times. However the Romans made the mistake of just ending up doling people out bread for the rest of a person's life rather than setting up a continuous infrastructure agency to get people to work for bread and a house. That and Rome was ruined by redundant, sclerotic bureaucracy.



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26 Oct 2011, 10:33 am

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ruveyn wrote:
mikecartwright wrote:
Who came up with the idea that infrastructure spending could create Jobs and put money in people's pockets and create demand I don't think it was Keynes/FDR because I think the idea has been around for a lot longer ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure


The ancient Egyptians. Look at all those pyramids.

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A pyramid is not an example of infrastructure spending.


Yes it is. It is the thruway by which Pharo's ka makes it to the after life.

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26 Oct 2011, 10:53 am

mikecartwright wrote:
Who came up with the idea that infrastructure spending could create Jobs and put money in people's pockets and create demand I don't think it was Keynes/FDR because I think the idea has been around for a lot longer ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure


The Ancient Chinese. They came up with The Great Wall.

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26 Oct 2011, 11:47 am

Reality. Reality has a liberal bias.



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26 Oct 2011, 12:46 pm

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Reality. Reality has a liberal bias.


Not really. Liberals believe that they can make something from nothing. Hence fiat money, subsidies, welfare. Liberals actually believe they can make a Gucci Bag from a Pig's Tuchus. That is why we have Project Head Start.

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26 Oct 2011, 1:15 pm

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Not really. Liberals believe that they can make something from nothing. Hence fiat money, subsidies, welfare. Liberals actually believe they can make a Gucci Bag from a Pig's Tuchus. That is why we have Project Head Start.

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Wheres conservatives know that you can't make a Gucci bag without a sweatshop.


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26 Oct 2011, 1:17 pm

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Not really. Liberals believe that they can make something from nothing. Hence fiat money, subsidies, welfare. Liberals actually believe they can make a Gucci Bag from a Pig's Tuchus. That is why we have Project Head Start.

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Wheres conservatives know that you can't make a Gucci bag without a sweatshop.


Actually not necessary which is why Gucci Bags are so expensive.

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26 Oct 2011, 4:54 pm

ruveyn wrote:
visagrunt wrote:
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Not really. Liberals believe that they can make something from nothing. Hence fiat money, subsidies, welfare. Liberals actually believe they can make a Gucci Bag from a Pig's Tuchus. That is why we have Project Head Start.

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Wheres conservatives know that you can't make a Gucci bag without a sweatshop.


Actually not necessary which is why Gucci Bags are so expensive.

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Not quite, Gucci Bags are expensive because they're made by Gucci. Which is a designer label so people will spend thousands of dollars on something just because it's made by Gucci. What I don't get is if they government is broke how do they expect to fix something by increasing spending. If we want to shrink the governments debt we should cut spending.