Fair - Loved your minute-by-minute post from Inauguration Day. Thanks for taking the time to do this!
As for your concern on transportation projects - you may have read that the Michigan Municipal League, among others, is calling for repairs to existing roads only - no new capacity. I think MDOT is looking at a 65/35 split between repair and new - I read something quickly and that might not be exactly right. Anyway, I'm sure there will be a mix and also I'm sure there will be projects some would consider waste. But what is pork to some are needed improvements to others. The Stimulus Bill won't be perfect - nothing ever is from government, right? What is that phrase? Don't let the perfect be the enemy of good. I think my beloved Barack has quoted that a time or two . . .
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Just to clarify the League's position. We believe in a fix it first strategy in our developed communities. This is not a time to continue the policies of sprawl and build new highways to the next exurbian strip mall. Its not a question of pork, its a question of fixing what we already have. Here's a link to our press release.
http://www.mml.org/advocacy/federal/mml_fix_it_first_final.pdf
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