Dear President Obama (I’m sick of this President-elect crap),
We need to spend some money. We need that money spent in every nook and cranny of these United States. Trying to mobilize enough projects to make a difference in the short to medium term will be very difficult from a centralized standpoint. We need to budget more than a half a trillion dollars to be spent on making this country stronger, and more competitive in the world.
Each Governor (in conjunction with their Congressional delegation) will be challenged to find projects in their states that will have maximum impact in the next 18 months. The projects would all have to fall within a few categories like energy efficiency, renewable energy infrastructure, roads and bridges, mass transit expansion and modernization of schools.
Each state would be awarded up to $1 billion per Senator or Congressman (Delaware gets $3 Billion, California gets $55B). Successful states would be eligible for additional grants in 18-24 months.
I know that Steve Newton’s head just exploded and Hube is only able to shout curse words in Spanish, but we need to get this country working. As far as I can tell, we gave (or will have given) a trillion dollars to a few institutions that seem to have squandered that cash and hope that we are satisfied that “things aren’t worse.” And at the end of my program, we will be less dependent on foreign oil, we will pollute our environment less and we will modernize our infrastructure and economy.
Liberalgeek