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CK_John

(10,005 posts) Mon Dec 19, 2016, 09:29 PM Dec 2016

If we are lucky enough to get an infrastructure repair program do we have the [View all]

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.

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If we are lucky enough to get an infrastructure repair program do we have the [View all] CK_John Dec 2016 OP

Any infrastructure plan we get will be a hand out to large companies Merlot Dec 2016 #1

That's why we have to get the ball rolling with a plan and a way to pay for it. CK_John Dec 2016 #2

Pity party or reality check? Merlot Dec 2016 #3

We can summit a bill and use the media, learn to twitter, FB, etc. CK_John Dec 2016 #4

Add Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to your contact list she is making moves for 2020. CK_John Dec 2016 #5

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