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THEy SaId IT
“Millions are unemployed and our roads and “Let’s set our
bridges are falling apart. If we can spend
$6 trillion sending people to war, we can sights higher
spend $1 trillion to put Americans to work than a single
fixing our nation’s crumbling infrastructure.
Let’s rebuild America and create jobs.” oil pipeline.
Let’s pass a
—sen. Bernie sanders (I-Vt.)’s tweet after proposing a $1 trillion infrastructure bill
“Congress hasn’t dealt bipartisan
seriously with the infrastructure
funding issue for over 20
years and it’s time to act.” plan that could
rep. earl Blumenauer (D-ore.) reintroduced a proposal to increase the federal
gasoline tax by 5 cents during each of the next three years with the backing create more
of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, AFL-CIo, American Trucking Associations and
numerous associations of small and medium businesses, local governments and
than 30 times as
transit agencies.
“Our business, not that I’m “We should be sending many jobs per
particularly proud of this, is more terrorists there for
full of cynics, smart-asses, further interrogation to year, and make
know-it-alls who don’t keep this country safe.
actually know all that much. As far as I’m concerned, this country
Everybody has become every last one of them
Simon Cowell, turning most can rot in hell, but as stronger for
every conversation into long as they don’t do
an intolerant rant. Not that, then they can rot in
Stuart. He was up, upbeat, Guantanamo Bay!” decades
full of energy, always had —Freshman senator tom cotton (R-Ark.)
something good to say.” dismissed widespread criticism of the to come.”
detention center in a Senate Armed
—Michael Wilbon, ESPN host, on the Services Committee hearing on Feb. 5, —President Barack obama said of
passing of his friend and fellow sports including the argument that the detention infrastructure planning during the State
commenter Stuart Scott of the Union address. ATR
center helps fuel propaganda for terrorists.
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