one thing we concentrated on was jobs. one of my first jobs was working for a senator in utah, counting up the works and development projects that were shovel ready. jobs that put people to work doing things that needed doing, roads fixed, bridges up to code. getting sewers and water systems in place. a leader complained a jobs bill was make work. i called the chief engineer in his district and got the names of the roads and bridges under code. it upset the republican leader but made a point. there s good work out there that needs to be done, and this is a good time to get doing it. if not now, when, asked the president about the debt ceiling. we could demand the same of our politicians about jobs. that stimulus bill they passed two years ago ain t very stimulating. after you ve taken out the tax
i spent a good deal of my life working in the u.s. senate, then in the white house, then for a legendary speaker of the house. one thing we concentrated on was jobs. one of my first jobs was working for a senator in utah, counting up the works and development projects that were shovel ready. jobs that put people to work doing things that needed doing, roads fixed, bridges up to code. getting sewers and water systems in place. a leader complained a jobs bill was make work. i called the chief engineer in his district and got the names of the roads and bridges under code. it upset the republican leader but made a point. there s good work out there that needs to be done, and this is a good time to get doing it. if not now, when, asked the president about the debt ceiling. we could demand the same of our politicians about jobs.
laura ingle, what did you find out? reporter: it s true, administrators say it s their job to make sure that every structure is safe, up to code, and on the books, and found that turning to the internet was really the fastest and cheapest way to do this. when the town started looking at expired permits for pools about a year ago, they realized that there were people out there who had no permits at all, which can be dangerous, no permit, no inspection, which means no safety precautions. what s worse, many pool owners didn t even know they were in that situation. we started looking at the permits that were expired, because the problem was that pool companies were obtaining permits on behalf of the property owner, finishing the job, and then leaving and never calling for the final inspection, or applying for the final certificate of occupancy. patti ann: it turns out there were close to 250 pool owners without a permit. the town has been able to get in touch with most all of them. onl