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Oops! Tell the rethugs, stat! They'll surely open the pocketbook then.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/03/20/big_majority_supports_public_spending_for_jobs.html
Big Majority Supports Public Spending for Jobs
A new Gallup poll finds that public support for new federal spending to create jobs is, as Greg Sargent puts it, "simply overwhelming."
Key findings: 72% support federal spending "to put people to work on urgent infrastructure repairs" and 72% support a "federal jobs creation law that would spend government money for a program designed to create more than 1 million new jobs."
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)after another couple of dozen abortion bills have been considered.
msongs
(67,405 posts)babylonsister
(171,065 posts)of course not. You're a one-note wonder. If we could get the rethugs to loosen the purse strings to get this done, you know there'd be all kinds of support for it, so why do you always claim there isn't? Why do you bad mouth Dems?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/us/politics/obama-to-flesh-out-plans-for-infrastructure-projects.html?_r=0
Obama Fleshes Out Plans for Infrastructure Projects
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: February 20, 2013