In other words, he's keeping a campaign promise? How unDemocratic of him.
He promised to kill jobs?
Yes, actually you did. You claimed I was just defending another liberal, even though I've already made clear that I support the underlying policy.
Which could have been done without killing Constellation and costing thousands of jobs.
"Thousands" of jobs maintained at the cost of
billions of dollars, in support of a program designed to fail, and that Congress was never going to fully fund? Constellation was Apollo cargo-cult, obsolete and unlikely to succeed even under the best of conditions.
So you say. I'm sure they say the money is better spent elsewhere and will create more jobs in the future.
Then let them deliver specific alternatives
before they kill plans already in motion. But they won't, because ending these programs is the whole of their objective - they have no intention of allowing job creation while a Democrat is President.
Just as they agree with killing what they view as a pork project.
Republicans offer no basis for such a view - they're just gunning for economic stimulus programs. They want the American economy to fail, and have barely concealed that desire since day one of the Obama administration.
There's no telepathy involved. These people are a mere bludgeon for you to beat Republicans with. Nothing else matters.
These people lost their jobs to depraved Republican politicking, but it's Republicans you're defending.
Doesn't matter. Thousands of jobs lost by killing a public program. Thousands.
Yes, it does matter. Not all public programs are created equal, and the Shuttle workforce is economically moribund. The advent of commercial manned space services will create an industry with unlimited growth potential.
You are operating under the assumption that the demand for travel would not have produced a more economically and socially beneficial system of transportation.
An assumption sustained by (once again) every single major transportation project ever undertaken in history, not to mention common sense.
We will never know, as the government stole from the productive sector in order finance projects it's actors deemed more worthy than the citizens from whom the money was taken.
Taxation in an elective, constitutional republic is not theft; both the public and private sectors are "productive"; and you are perfectly welcome to avoid publicly-subsidized infrastructure if you wish - you can start by getting off the Internet, and not driving on Interstate highways. Demand a rigorously private Internet and freeway system, and wait for the Invisible Hand to make them fall out of the sky.
Is it your opinion that maintaing old infrastructure is detrimental to economic growth?
It is if the opportunity cost is failure to invest in the drivers of that growth.
So how many jobs is the 810 million stimulus touching? Do we have a number that makes the project economically feasible or is it just hope and change we are funding?
This particular part of the program - the Milwaukee rail project - involves thousands of jobs. That part is only a fraction of the total nationwide HSR initiative. And that initiative is only a part of the infrastructure investment. And the total infrastructure investment is only part of the economic stimulus package. My point was that 300 had already been lost to a Republican campaign tactic.