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Re: “Small Change”

Just a few thoughts on Williamson's article and some of the responses...while it is disappointing that Richmond was overlooked for railway funds, it is more clear that the Romney-Ryan plan is an Ayn Randian "you're on your own" approach for actual human citizens but generous subsidy and deregulation for the corporate person. So when the cliches fly about "handouts" let's be clear: public funds spent on education, poverty and transportation is a return of our own money in the form of useful and necessary infrastructure. The real "handouts" are given to corporations who, as Burger rightly notes, have been over-incentivized for years with mediocre results. We have heard the mantra of the Teapublicans that the stimulus was worthless and created "zero jobs" but this is a bald faced lie. Just look at the new fire house almost completed on Semmes Avenue, just one of many stimulus-funded projects in the Commonwealth that have created thousands of jobs.

But then again, maybe I'm mistaken, naive and biased as "anonymous" suggests. Maybe that fire house was built by that magical "invisible hand" of the (rigged) "free market."

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Posted by Lee Carleton on 09/17/2012 at 10:45 AM

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