As President-Elect Obama reiterates the need for the 111th Congress to act fast on the stimulus plan, the public must demand greater economic return on those spending projects. As transit advocates, we need to contact our Senators and Representatives today and urge them to support alternative modes of transportation. Remind them of the record increases in public transportation ridership over the past year. Highlight our transit “ready to go” projects including bus rapid transit and extending our greenway system. Explain that transit is a sustainable solution and that unnecessary road building is wasteful spending. New transit projects will put our country to work.
We need economic recovery legislation that invests in a greener future.
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Follow up to Post from Smart Growth Network - News Headlines - January 2009
President-Elect Obama Pledges to Rebuild America's Infrastructure
"We start 2009 in the midst of a crisis unlike any we have seen in our lifetime," a crisis reflecting "an era of profound irresponsibility that stretched from corporate board rooms to the halls of power in Washington, D.C." and requiring congressional passage of his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan possibly in the next few weeks, said President-elect Barack Obama in a speech at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, assuring the nation that the plan "won't just throw money at our problems," but will "invest in what works" -- in sustainable energy, education, health care and infrastructure.
http://www.smartgrowth.org/news/article.asp?art=6946&state=52
This "stimulus" bill is simply a spending bill to assure liberals will control government for the the next 30 years.
You should all be ashamed for taking advantage of a national crisis to grab more power. But then, you are liberals; that's what you do.
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