If we are lucky enough to get an infrastructure repair program do we have the

[CK_John]

enough blue collar and engineers to do the job and get a fair wage.

Or will this be another H-2B jobs for low labor.

It will, if we don't get over the pity party and start getting down to business and tell Senator Chuck Schumer to get to work.

We should push "FixIt" Bonds (modeled after FDR War Bonds); why, because we are going to pay for it anyway, so we should make easy for the GOP to pretend its their solution.

[Merlot]

1. Any infrastructure plan we get will be a hand out to large companies

That's what trumpts plan was all about - giving tax credits and incentives to large companies. There won't be any money coming directly to the states to fix the infrastructure - it will go directly to big business. And you know how they like to take their bonuses.

We'd probably be better off opposing any trumpt infrastructure plan. Besides, if trumpt actually does start the roundup of people belonging to a specific religion, or the deportation of undocumented persons, we should oppose working with him anyway.

We can't work with racists without compromising our principles.

[CK_John]

2. That's why we have to get the ball rolling with a plan and a way to pay for it.

Of course he will do nothing but the pity party isn't a plan.

[Merlot]

3. Pity party or reality check?

We can't "get the ball rolling" because that's not how our gov't works. The party in power is the party that writes the bills, brings them up for vote, sends them to the president for signature.

[CK_John]

4. We can summit a bill and use the media, learn to twitter, FB, etc.

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[CK_John]

5. Add Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to your contact list she is making moves for 2020.