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Originally Posted by LMJD
It's something new every day. First, the road construction warning signs have an additional sign saying "Keeping America Working", that tells you where the money is coming from. They've laid a blanket 4 miles long east of town over an only 5 year old widening and paving job. Now they're doing the same west of town over new blacktop.
A local fencing company is replacing 8 miles of perfectly good barb wire and T-post fence along my stretch of the little two lane highway. Here's the good part. A friend who cowboys for a huge local ranch, 100-200 square miles at least, was sent over to ask the fence contractor about his ranch buying all the used T-posts. Get this, the fence company is required to bend a tight curve in the top of each post so it's unusable and has to be sold as scrap. And this kind of Washington brainpower is going to get the economy back on it's feet? I'm sure making the (name deleted) ranch corporate owners buy 1000+ new posts versus perfectly good used will instill their's and other's confidence in our wonderful economic future.
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What about Wall Street selling debt to foreigners so that they earn all the interest dollars instead of Americans?
That is whole is umpteen thousands times larger than a few billion of our tax dollars being spent on road and fence maintanence.
