About Barack Obama
Read my lips - no new roads.
Rebuild broken bridges, resurface existing roads, build new mass transit lines, fix schools, etc. But no new roads. New roads have been encouraging unsustainable suburban sprawl jungles for 50 years - it's time to stop throwing money down that hole. New roads to "relieve congestion" are NOT fixing failing infrastructure. What they are is a maintenance burden for the tax-payers to deal with for darn near forever. In the short term, it serves as covert corporate welfare for builders who could just as easily be putting their money into revitalizing housing stock in cities. Purely and totally a lose-lose for society. The only ones who win short term are the builders - who could still win by focusing on brown-field development instead of killing farms.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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