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The Irony Of It All
Brad Hollerbach

Do we really need 5 million flagmen?

Posted Wednesday, December 3, 2008, at 3:14 PM

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  • Did I overlook your name on the ballot? I'd a voted for ya on that platform...

    -- Posted by Hugh M Bean on Fri, Dec 5, 2008, at 4:35 PM
  • Brad the 1st poster is correct & you overestimate the skills needed to do highway construction.

    There is & will be plenty of knowledgeable persons capable of this type of work .

    Many of the people with these skills are just the ones out of jobs at this time, you can get "on the job conditioning ", your attitude strikes me as defeatist & not the positive attitude that is crucial at times like these!

    -- Posted by rockman54 on Fri, Dec 5, 2008, at 6:19 PM
  • Gee you know the economy just lost 500k jobs in the month of November, I assume that all of these people that were laid off were untrained and unskilled workers? I'm guessing that is what you would call a GM, Ford, or Chrysler employee, heh? I'd rather have people drawing a gov't check for doing work that needs to be done, then having people draw a gov't check for sitting at home watching Dr. Phil and Ophra. How many I-35 bridge collapses do we need before we come to grips that it is time to improve our roads, highways, and bridges?

    -- Posted by semoredhawk on Sat, Dec 6, 2008, at 11:08 AM
  • Construction ebbs and flows with the economy and many of the workers with the necessary skills are currently in lesser paying jobs. When the skilled workers return to their higher paying construction and engineering jobs, other less skilled workers will take their place.

    The influx of money into the construction workers' paychecks will of course be spent, benefiting all sorts of local businesses. Sounds like a good plan to me.

    -- Posted by chiang01 on Sat, Dec 6, 2008, at 8:40 PM
  • Everyone on here acts as if government "job creation" is an end in itself.

    If creating jobs can justify transportation projects, why not fill the country with bridges to nowhere?

    Paying people to dig holes and fill them back in again is not a smart investment, or an appropriate use of taxpayers' money.

    -- Posted by Lumpy on Sun, Dec 7, 2008, at 6:18 AM
  • So lumpy, I guess the roads and bridges in Missouri and the rest of the country are just fine and don't need repairs and replacement? I guess we should wait until the next major bridge collapses before we spend any money.

    -- Posted by chiang01 on Sun, Dec 7, 2008, at 9:29 AM
  • Lumpy

    They would be doing a job that needs done either way, not creating work as you suggest.

    Brad , I think its a miracle even 24 people would want to know what you are about ??

    -- Posted by rockman54 on Sun, Dec 7, 2008, at 1:34 PM